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  2. Evolution of cells - Wikipedia

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    "Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: a hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103 (10): 3669– 3674. Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.3669F. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510333103. PMC 1450140. PMID 16505372.

  3. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    Bacteria develop primitive photosynthesis, which at first did not produce oxygen. [37] These organisms exploit a proton gradient to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a mechanism used by virtually all subsequent organisms. [38] [39] [40] 3000 Ma Photosynthesizing cyanobacteria using water as a reducing agent and producing oxygen as a waste ...

  4. Evolution of photosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of photosynthesis refers to the origin and subsequent evolution of photosynthesis, the process by which light energy is used to assemble sugars from carbon dioxide and a hydrogen and electron source such as water. It is believed that the pigments used for photosynthesis initially were used for protection from the harmful effects ...

  5. Chloroplast DNA - Wikipedia

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    Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), also known as plastid DNA (ptDNA) is the DNA located in chloroplasts, which are photosynthetic organelles located within the cells of some eukaryotic organisms. Chloroplasts, like other types of plastid , contain a genome separate from that in the cell nucleus .

  6. Plastid evolution - Wikipedia

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    Secondary endosymbiosis results in the engulfment of an organism that has already performed primary endosymbiosis. Thus, four plasma membranes are formed. The first originating from the cyanobacteria, the second from the eukaryote that engulfed the cyanobacteria, and the third from the eukaryote who engulfed the primary endosymbiotic eukaryote. [11]

  7. Chloroplast - Wikipedia

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    Chloroplasts, containing thylakoids, visible in the cells of Ptychostomum capillare, a type of moss. A chloroplast (/ ˈ k l ɔːr ə ˌ p l æ s t,-p l ɑː s t /) [1] [2] is a type of organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells.

  8. DNA - Wikipedia

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    The specificity of these transcription factors' interactions with DNA come from the proteins making multiple contacts to the edges of the DNA bases, allowing them to "read" the DNA sequence. Most of these base-interactions are made in the major groove, where the bases are most accessible.

  9. Cyanobacteria - Wikipedia

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    Lynn Margulis brought this hypothesis back to attention more than 60 years later [196] but the idea did not become fully accepted until supplementary data started to accumulate. The cyanobacterial origin of plastids is now supported by various pieces of phylogenetic, [197] [189] [192] genomic, [198] biochemical [199] [200] and structural ...