Eukaryotes share a common origin, and are often treated formally as a superkingdom, empire, or domain.
Not exact matches
We
share a common ancestor with other
eukaryotes, but
eukaryotes branched off into tons of different forms of life.
Last, the investigation of informational processing and cellular machineries have revealed that genomes of Asgard archaea, which affiliate with
eukaryotes in the tree of life (see the figure), encode proteins that they only
share with
eukaryotes.
Based on pioneering work from the acclaimed biologist Carl Woese, it has been known that
eukaryotes at some point
shared a common ancestor with archaea.
Most scientists
share the view that a symbiosis in which an archaeal host cell took up a bacterium ultimately gave rise to
eukaryotes.
«We found that Asgard archaea
share many genes uniquely with
eukaryotes, including several genes that are involved in the formation of structures that give eukaryotic cells their complex character.
Though newly discovered Asgard group are not
eukaryotes, they
share some important similarities — including genes that were thought to exist only in complex cells.