A lot of plant genes actually come from bacteria. And this may explain the success of early land plants - ZME Science

Even the genes that make us shed tears when cutting onions are bacterial in origin.

The evolution of land plants (simplified). Around 500 million years ago land plants started to spread from water to land. Credit: IST Austria. When we think of gene transfer, the first thing that po… [+5607 chars]

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