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Cyanobacteria Became Symbiotic With Eukaryotes 900 Million years ago

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Author: Will Baird
Date: 2013-06-20 00:00:00
Blog: The Dragon’s Tales
URL: http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2013/06/cyanobacteria-became-symbiotic-with.html

Summary:

Long before plants and animals inhabited the earth, when life consisted of single-celled organisms afloat in a planet-wide sea, bacteria invaded these organisms and took up permanent residence. One bacterium eventually became the mitochondria that today power all plant and animal cells; another became the chloroplast that turns sunlight into energy in green plants. A new analysis by two

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