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Apple QuickTime Audio  |  1996-05-27  |  2.1 MB  |  1 channel  |  44,100 sample rate  |  1 minute, 33 seconds
Transcription: Treasure 29, Molecular Systematics Laboratories. The museum's interdisciplinary molecular systematics laboratories are home to over 20 scientists who analyze DNA, the molecular basis of inheritance of living and extinct animals. The equipment here enables scientists to look beyond the anatomy of organisms, their skeletons, scales, feathers, and so on, into their genetic In 1992, scientists working in the Molecular Systematics Lab successfully extracted DNA from an extinct, primitive termite preserved in amber. After the DNA of an organism is extracted and sequenced, it's analyzed by computer, ...