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Ranjan said one field of research in particular has him excited -- phylogenetic microbiology, which uses genome analysis to reconstruct the blueprints of sulfur-using microorganisms believed to represent the oldest phyla on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
"There are 34 different animal phyla living on this planet and in over roughly 600 million years they have all come up with different solutions to the same fundamental biological problems," Lowe said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
As you review the phyla we’ve discussed in this lesson, remember the characteristics that set apart each phyla.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
In spite of their high development in past ages the Lycopods, recent and fossil, constitute, on the whole, a homogeneous group, and there is little at present to connect them with other phyla.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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