The sequence is believed to have remained consistent throughout much of the evolutionary process, possibly originating in an ancient eukaryotic organism.
The mobility of these genetic elements has had a profound influence on evolution, promoting diversity among the world's most ancient organisms.
To achieve that, these ancient organisms would have possessed a working chloroplast.
The hyperthermophilic abilities of T. maritima, along with its deep lineage, suggests that it is potentially a very ancient organism.
But the world still contains ancient organisms that are not only anaerobic, but are actually killed by oxygen.
The ancient, immortal organisms were mere vegetables; the new life forms were fighters and learners.
One massive, inert organism opposing them, ancient and slow in its actions, but infinitely determined.
Although new to Western medicine, they are mostly ancient organisms that have seized the chance to escape from a confined locale.
Did ancient organisms develop with more direct translation of gene to product, permitting such creatures to interchange and alter their parts separately?
The water does contain ancient organisms, and the organisms do have the effect of changing human and animal bone structure.