Two-billion-year-old enzyme reconstructed (IMAGE)

Universität Leipzig

Two-billion-year-old enzyme reconstructed

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This is what a phylogenetic tree looks like whose origin (middle) goes back two billion years. The tips of the branches each represent the enzyme of a modern organism.

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Diana Smikalla

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