🧬DNA Barcoding. From verifying the authenticity of your sushi or dry mushrooms to discovering new species, DNA barcoding gives us a superpower, via access to the codes of Life! In biological science, we use specific genes in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria to identify them, we do this by sequencing those specific genes and referencing them against a Global database of sequences other scientists have uploaded. I started using DNA barcoding to identify mushrooms and have since used it to ide