New Delhi, Oct 7 (UNI) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday was apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June, 2020 between the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), a subordinate organisation under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the International Barcode of Life (iBOL), a Canadian not-for-profit corporation.
The Cabinet meeting was headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
ZSI and iBOL have come together for further efforts in DNA barcoding, a methodology for rapidly and accurately identifying species by sequencing a short segment of standardized gene regions and comparing individual sequences to a reference database, an official statement said here.