that a small number of sequences extracted from extinct organisms have
been deposited at GenBank? These include DNA from the Neanderthal
man, the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed cat, and several giant New
Zealand birds (moas) among others. A more complete list of extinct
organisms that are represented in the public sequence database can be
found here.
These are direct links to some of the organisms commonly used in molecular research projects:
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