Biology: How Life Works
Biology: How Life Works
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ISBN: 9781319017637
Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Around 1.6 billion years ago the last common ancestor of plants and animals lived and it was considered as a unicellular organism (neither animal nor plant itself). It is likely that plants and animals evolved separately into multi celled organisms however, the basic cellular mechanisms are homologous.

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