Sentences with phrase «eukaryotes thought»
To find clues, she has trained her sights on choanoflagellates — a group of single - celled eukaryotes thought to be the closest living relatives of animals.
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Martin's own thoughts on the birth of the nucleus stem from a further considerationnamely, that all eukaryotes appear to have had mitochondria at some point in their past.
The first eukaryote is thought to have arisen when simpler archaea and bacteria joined forces.
«Bacteria are more similar to eukaryotes than we thought.»
But until now, experts thought the most primitive eukaryotes were the exception to this rule.
Nor, researchers thought, can any other eukaryotes — the group of organisms we belong to along with other animals, plants, fungi, and various microscopic creatures.
Until recently, the proteins that make up the eukaryotic cytoskeleton, which include actin, microtubules, ESCRTIII, Septins and coatamers, were thought to be unique to eukaryotes.
Though newly discovered Asgard group are not eukaryotes, they share some important similarities — including genes that were thought to exist only in complex cells.