Plants Survived The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid By Duplicating Genomes - Astrobiology
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66 million years ago, a space rock of the size of Everest struck the Earth, ripping dinosaurs and a huge part of the living from the map. Yet, the vegetation has not completely disappeared. Scientists have just discovered the secret of this incredible plant resilience. The key does not lie in a [...]
Plants Survived The Dinosaur-killing Asteroid By Duplicating Genomes - Astrobiology
When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In a new study publishing May 8 in the Cell Press journal Cell, researchers reveal that the accidental duplications of genomes—a […] The post Plants Survived The Dinosaur-killing Asteroid By Duplicating Genomes appeared first on Astrobiology.
66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest wiped out a large part of life on Earth. But many plants managed to survive. Now it is clear how that is possible. It is perhaps the most famous mass extinction: the one in which all dinosaurs perished, as well as about a third of life […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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