Genome sequencing complete on plodding amoeba that flips into free-swimming flagellate
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 17:14
in Biology & Nature
In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, for example, or cramming all the energy machinery inside mitochondria.