Scientists Replicated the Energy System That May Be the Secret of Life's Inception
In two recently published papers, scientists successfully recreated the mitochondria (in a simple form) and biochemical ...
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The two hypotheses on the origin of eukaryotes.
whereas the oblong red shape denotes a typical archaeon with a cell wall. A: archaea; B: bacteria; E: eukaryote; LUCA: last universal common ancestor of cellular life-forms; LECA: last eukaryotic ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
However, until scientists determined the position of the LUCA (what evolutionary biologists ... are indeed fundamentally different at several cell biological levels, and not just in universal ...