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Palaeos Eukarya: Eukarya: Origins.1 |
 | | First, and because the bacteria and Eukarya are very different from each other, we need to understand that they are not so different that we should think of them as only remotely related to each other. |
 | | The gaps between Archaea, Eukarya, and bacteria are no greater than the gaps between fishes and Tetrapoda, or reptiles and Mammalia, appeared to be a century ago. |
 | | They have a number of characteristic features, the most easily remembered of which is a cell membrane composed of prenyl ether lipids, but very few actual synapomorphies (Cavalier-Smith, 2006). |
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