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The biggest break in life, she explained, was between the prokaryotes (cells with nucleoids: monera, prokaryota; archaebacteria, eubacteria) and eukaryotes (cells with nuclei: protoctista, fungi, plantae, animalia).
Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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