Posts tagged with ‘yeast’

Biologists force yeast to become multicellular, watching a breakthrough in evolution happen right in front of them

For the first hundred million years or so of life on Earth, the boiling seas were populated with single celled organisms. How and why life took the major leap from being single-celled to multicellular organisms and all the complexity that involves has been a mystery. But now, scientists at the University of Minnesota have forced yeast to make this jump, watching this crucial bit of evolution happen right in front of them.

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