Sentences with phrase «first eukaryotic cell»

As a result, they say, the origin of the first eukaryotic cell has remained «one of the most enduring mysteries in modern biology.»

The hypothesized process by which prokaryotes gave rise to the first eukaryotic cells is known as endosymbiosis, and certainly ranks among the most important evolutionary events.

The appearance of the first eukaryotic cells, around 2 billion years ago, are a clear example of symbio - genetic association between two kinds of prokaryotes that can inspire us to create another possible world.

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Did an ancient extinction spur the rise of photosynthesis, or the emergence of eukaryotic cells, or the appearance of the first predatory microbes?

It is the first synthetic chromosome ever assembled from a eukaryotic organism, the type in which cells store DNA in nuclei.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.

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.

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.