It is important to remember that many of the greatest biological discoveries had yet to be made when Darwin published "On the Origin of Species."
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It will be hard for NASA to definitively say if an organic is of biologicalorigin or not, but they say the research they do with MSL will help guide future missions.
His company Cofactor Bio offers a sequencing service to complement its GeneLaser DNA Sequencing Kit, which includes reagents for amplifying target sequences, and DNA Barcoding Kit, for identifying the biologicalorigin of samples (available in editions for fish, fungi, flower plants, and other organisms).