When Plants Think Alike

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 11:14 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. read more

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