i have recently been reading articles about the collection and cataloguing of DNA of plants and animals for use in identification. this seems futuristic, but they are predicting that this may be a reality in the next 5 years or so. canadian scientists are actually compiling this data as i write this. the project is called the International Barcode of Life. so i wonder, in 5 years, will traditional botany be obsolete or will people like me still be the ones that study plants and use these "hand-helds" in the field? if you think this is interesting, check out this article. another cool canadian site where you can learn more is BOLNET. and i want to point out that lots of this stuff is happening in GUELPH!!!!
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