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Category Archive for 'Plant Evolution'

Moving Genes Around A recent report that a species of aphid can make carotene thanks to a gene it apparently acquired from a fungus got me to thinking about whether genes can flow between different plant species. When an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism, this is [...]

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A Long, Long Time Ago on Planet Not So Far Away What were the first plants to colonize the land on Earth? And when did this occur in the history of the biosphere? Why did a burgeoning of flowering plant species come to dominate their gymnosperm and fern predecessors so quickly? The Mossy (Algal and [...]

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