Tracking invisible traces of life with environmental DNA

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This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Sara talks with Sabrina Shirazi, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, about environmental DNA. Animals and plants shed DNA all the time into the environment, and by analyzing small samples of soil or water, scientists can discover which organisms are present there, whether they are animals, plants, fungi, or bacteria, even if the organism cannot be visually observed.

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