• AmidFuror@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Plants don’t appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.

    *The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences