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Focus stacked image (composed of 59 frames) of a trilobite of the species Austerops speculator found in Jebel Oufatene, Morocco. It lived in the early Devonian period and is approximately 400 million years old. The length of the fossil is about 3 centimetres (1.2 in).

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The Food Standards Agency explains precision breeding; what precision breeding is, its applications and the FSA's role.

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