Plants.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Red algae did not descend from green algae. Both lineages split from a shared ancestor about 1.5 billion years ago, then adapted independently to different light environments.
2.
From History:
About 385 million years ago is when trees started to emerge, distinguished by their secondary growth wood and deep roots.
3.
From History:
A lineage can survive for hundreds of millions of years while remaining morphologically recognizable. Living fossil is poetic, but scientifically the ginkgo represents a relict lineage and a morphologically conservative lineage.
4.
From History:
Ginkgo represents an ancient seed-plant lineage going back 270 million years ago.
5.
From History:
About 1.55 billion years ago, bikonts evolved two flagella to pull themselves forward. These tiny rowboats led to all plants and is not an animal-fungi ancestor.
6.
From History:
Archaea are a primary branch of early life, and eukaryotes emerged from within this archaeal lineage.
7.
From History:
About 252 million years ago, needle-like leaves had become a defining adaptation of conifers, enabling survival and expansion in dry environments.
8.
From History:
About 2.4 billion years ago, Cyanobacteria “hacked” the sun to split water, releasing oxygen as a byproduct and triggering the first global environmental catastrophe and subsequent biological reset.
9.
From History:
LECA is the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor. LECA reproduced sexually pushing the mixing of DNA back before 1.75 billion years ago.
10.
From History:
About 2 billion years ago, bacteria are added to cells and that group leads to eukaryotes. You are a walking chimera ecosystem made of an Archaea host and trillions of Bacterial power-plants.
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