Metabolism gives a boost to understanding plant and animal nutrient evolution
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
For the ancient ancestors of plants and animals, a partnership with other microbes was once formed during an endosymbiotic event to give rise to eukaryotes. Plants and animals, over billions of years of trial and error, made efficient use of different energy sources in the environment, namely carbon dioxide and oxygen.