Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In the year 1977, the Archaebacteria or Archaea, the third domain of life separate from Bacteria and Eukaryota, was proposed by Carl Woese and George Fox. They had analyzed small subunit ribosomal RNA ( SSU rRNA) oligonucleotide fragments from 13 microbes before establishing this proposal. In the late 1980s, the use of SSU rRNA to describe […]
Madhavi Bhatia, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Guwahati Taxonomy is a branch of science that classifies organisms into hierarchical forms based on their similar characteristics into various groups. There are various fields like metagenomics, clinical forensic medicine that depend on fully annotated taxonomic data for identification and grouping of organisms present within the […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Butterflies and moths of the order Lepidoptera are regarded as one of those animal groups with a diverse distribution of species. Up to now, scientists have discovered almost 5000 species from the Alps itself. Recently, a Swiss-Austrian team of researchers reported the discovery of a new species of alpine moth […]
