Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental sample. Its field has been responsible for substantial advances in microbial ecology, evolution, and diversity over the past 5 to 10 years and many research laboratories are actively engaged in it now. Using metagenomics, the distinctions between bacterial species are based upon the comparison of DNA nucleotide sequences of different bacterial species.
That instant ... typically some moment on june 21 or 22 ... marks
the beginning of the northern hemisphere Summer.
Many of the skeletons have associated age, sex, ancestry, and cause of death data. Individual remains with known biological information are especially valuable references. Forensic anthropologists have used these skeletons to develop standards for determining sex, age and ancestry in unknown remains