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from The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,\u2019 scientists say<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Anthony Cuthbertson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An image showing how the algae looked at different stages using X-ray tomography\u00a0(Valentina Loconte\/Berkeley Lab)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in\u00a0the history of the Earth<\/a>, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first time we think it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,\u201d said Tyler Coale, a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the research on one of two recent studies that uncovered the phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything more complicated than a bacterial cell owes its existence to that event. A billion years ago or so, it happened again with the chloroplast, and that gave us plants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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