Fundamental Building Block In Flowering Plants Evolved Independently, Yet Almost Identically In Ancient Plants

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 10:21 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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