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The audacious plan to catalog all life on Earth

The multibillion-dollar Earth BioGenome Project is being called a "moonshot for biology." An international team of scientists is finalizing plans for the Earth BioGenome Project, a multibillion-dollar “moonshot for biology” that will assemble the genetic blueprint of every plant, animal and fungus known to science — some 1.5 million species in all.

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