Did bacteria developed into more complex cells much earlier in evolution than thought?
Biochemists have described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells and found this crucial step happened much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than previously thought.
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Microbiology experiments showed that E.Coli kept in depleted culture conditions can “adapt” to the environment and develop the ability to use citrate. However, bacteria did not “evolve” into a different species. Moreover, there are great differences between uni-cellular organisms and most multi-cellular eukaryotes.
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