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Evolutionary Aspects of Chloroplast Development

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Life began nearly 3.8 billion years ago, within a remarkably short time after formation of the earth. The rapidity in the appearance of living structures raises the possibility that this event could have happened more than once. Nevertheless, the near universality of the genetic code can be explained most directly by assuming that all current genomes are derived from a single, original genome.

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    J. Kenneth Hoober

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Hoober, J.K. (1984). Evolutionary Aspects of Chloroplast Development. In: Chloroplasts. Cellular Organelles. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2767-7_10

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