Long before Earth resembled its current state, López-García says, these microbial mats “were the forests of the past,” adding that scientists now use these clumps of microscopic life “as analogs of ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and a new-to ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and evolutionary resilience. Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of ...

The origin of eukaryotes: a reappraisal ... The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature 392, 37–41 (1998) doi:10.1038/32096. Pace, N. R. Time for a change. Nature 441, 289 (2006 ...

They include animals, plants, fungi, algae and protozoans. In this article, we will explain in further detail what prokaryotes and eukaryotes are and outline the differences between the two.

They include animals, plants, fungi, algae and protozoans. In this article, we will explain in further detail what prokaryotes and eukaryotes are and outline the differences between the two.

For the first time, the compositions, ultrastructural identities, synapomorphies (where available), and subgroups of the major building blocks are summarized. More than 200 further lineages without ...

Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or more rings ...