Recent Examples on the WebLate 1970s Carl Woese (pictured below) introduces a new way to classify organisms that involves sequencing a slowly evolving gene, 16S rRNA, that all organisms share.—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016
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