When Plants 'Think' Alike
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 13:14
in Biology & Nature
Biologists have discovered that a fundamental building block in the cells of flowering plants evolved independently, yet almost identically, on a separate branch of the evolutionary tree--in an ancient plant group called lycophytes that originated at least 420 million years ago.
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