Genomics: Decoding the blueprints for Australia's biodiversity

• Every living organism has its own genetic “blueprint”: the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. • This blueprint is known as a genome. • When scientists sequence a genome, they identify and put in order the chemical building blocks-adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G) nucleotides-that make up an organism’s DNA.

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• Every living organism has its own genetic “blueprint”: the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify and put in order the chemical building blocks-adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G) nucleotides-that make up an organism’s DNA.

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• https://phys.org/news/2026-02-genomics-decoding-blueprints-australia-biodiversity.html