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Unexpected Elements

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The Evolution of Dna in the Environment

normally dna in the environment degrades quite rapidly and in air we worry about things like uv light which has a way of destroying dna but some of those filters that we analyzed from scotland had been sitting effectively at room temperature for nearly a year and the dna was intact. Some countries apparently have stored them as archives that might go back for decades and decades and it's those ones that we're really interested in if that dna is preserved still in some form then they might really be a sort of archive of biodiversity going back to the 60s when some of these networks were formed. That would give you this amazing picture of potentially how much you've lost or how ecosystems

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