The genus Cryptosporidium, a group of single -
celled eukaryotic organisms in the phylum Apicomplexa, comprises an unknown number of species infecting numerous vertebrate species.
A Snowball to Acidic Hothouse swing would have greatly added to already high evolutionary pressures from anaerobic extinctions through genetic isolation of selective survival adaptations and may have led singled -
celled eukaryotic organisms to cooperate together physically and form the first multi-cellular lifeforms.
Not exact matches
The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes,
organisms whose
cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago,
eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.
Cells with nuclei, called eukaryotic cells (which make up virtually all multi-cellular organisms) are much larger and more complex that prokaryotic cells and likely resulted from the early combining of prokaryotic c
Cells with nuclei, called
eukaryotic cells (which make up virtually all multi-cellular organisms) are much larger and more complex that prokaryotic cells and likely resulted from the early combining of prokaryotic c
cells (which make up virtually all multi-cellular
organisms) are much larger and more complex that prokaryotic
cells and likely resulted from the early combining of prokaryotic c
cells and likely resulted from the early combining of prokaryotic
cellscells.
A fungus (plural fungi) is a
eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its
cells.
The advent of the nucleus — which differentiates eukaryotes (
organisms whose
cells contain a true nucleus), including humans, from prokaryotes, such as bacteria — can not be satisfactorily explained solely by the gradual adaptation of prokaryotic
cells until they became
eukaryotic.
The living world thrived long before the origin of nucleated
organisms [the
eukaryotic cells, which have genetic material enclosed in well - defined membranes].
Prokaryotic
cells are usually singletons, while
eukaryotic cells are usually found in multi-cellular
organisms.
It is the first synthetic chromosome ever assembled from a
eukaryotic organism, the type in which
cells store DNA in nuclei.
It allows
eukaryotic cells to evolve into multicellular
organisms that have remarkable structural and functional variation.
In fact, as with
eukaryotic organisms, division of Caulobacter
cells generates two different daughter
cells, which can be easily separated.
Contained within all
eukaryotic cells, mitochondria possess their own DNA due to their evolutionary history as an «enslaved» bacterium swallowed up billions of years ago by a primitive
eukaryotic organism.
We could fairly posit that the evolutionary origin of the
eukaryotic cell was «the first time that what went around came around», a quid pro quo with among primitive
organisms in deep time.
Such series of
cell fate transitions of stem
cells ultimately lead to the development of a higher
eukaryotic organism.
The CellDevo Track focuses on the study of molecular mechanisms in
eukaryotic cells and their role in tissue formation, with the level of analysis ranging from single molecules to single
cells, from
cells to tissues, and from tissues to whole
organisms.
(All multi-
cell organisms are made of
eukaryotic cells; the other type of
cell, prokaryotic, is found in single -
cell organisms.)
These newly identified
organisms might have a big impact on our understanding of the deeper branches of the tree of life giving us new hints about the emergence of the
eukaryotic cell.
From seed and spore dispersal, to rapid
cell growth of
eukaryotic organisms, and the pulsing cilia needed to sustain them, to the slow growth of lichens and moss - life has a remarkable way of establishing itself on the planet; yet, most of these processes go unseen to the human eye.