If you were travelling in a time machine a hundred million years back, the celebration of christmas would be maybe between a dinosaur the night to hide in. Among them was also the greatest of all time beast-a-saurus, spinosaurus.

however, If you were in the christmas spirit also to the cretaceous period, you could take joulupuuna the ginkgo biloba or the world – or very familiar-looking tree.

the age of Dinosaurs ended long ago, and the plant kingdom continues to evolve the current species spectrum disorders. The moon that development is ignored. Their genome has changed hardly at all in a hundred million years.

from the Same ancestors own way left the flowers of the plant have been forced to struggle in order to survive and procreate, but conifers have been doing air tricks, especially cold climate areas.

This is stated in the canadian Laval university plant geneticist Jean bousquet’s , led by gene mapping, which focused on just six species.

streak cells in the explanation?

Small mutations are, of course, filed the fir I of the genome, but the main structural component has remained stable. Apparently the moon to find balance with their environment very early, Bousquet concludes.

the Explanation may be coniferous of tube cells, which transport water to the inside of the body.

They are tight more than the leaves on the trees, which I think would be the disadvantage of the water during the race. Conifers have solved the problem of the cells between huokosilla that work venttiileinä.

that’s a tree trump card had any, this day six would not seem strange to spinosauruksen not in the eyes.

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