Studying the DNA of the ancient Amborella flower is opening up new insights into the evolution of certain plants and animals. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Buffalo's Victor Albert looks at the ancient origins of this Amborella and works to sequence its genome in order to better understand how life has developed on Earth.

Albert is an Empire Innovation Professor at Buffalo's Department of Biological Sciences. Find out more about him here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.