Assertion: biologist | /r/CapableOf | use rna and dna sequences
Facets:
value: as characters
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: By the 1980s, protein sequencing had already transformed methods of scientific classification of organisms (especially cladistics) but biologists soon began to use RNA and DNA sequences as characters; this expanded the significance of molecular evolution within evolutionary biology, as the results of molecular systematics could be compared with traditional evolutionary trees based on morphology.