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- noun Plural form of
eukaryote .
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Examples
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That would mean that different metazoa came from different eukarya.
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We've heard multiple times that ancestral lines of eukarya do not lead to a single ancestral cell.
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Upwards from it we have vertical lines going through eukarya (1), metazoa (2), and finally chordata (3).
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You want to picture multiple independent eukarya crossing the Darwinian threshold, but they are strongly related through HGT.
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The rest of the eukarya line gave rise to descendants who died out.
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My depiction of eukarya in the new graph begins with the old (2), the Darwinian threshold.
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We've heard your line, it's not what biologists are saying, and that point in time is irrelevant to the structure of clades from eukarya on up.
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My depiction of eukarya in the new graph begins with the old (2), the Darwinian threshold.
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If the exercise will amount to going back to the Darwinian threshold and repeating that eukarya arose many times independently, spare the effort.
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Actually, what you have is an on-going debate about the origin of eukarya.
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