LAUNCHPAD ACCESS BIOL HOW LIFE WORKS 3E
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Author: Morris
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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