New daisy species discovered with refined DNA technology

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Nov 13, 2024, 9:47 am87 pts
Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. In a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, completely new species of daisies have been discovered when analyzed using modern DNA technology.

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