The last eukaryotic ancestor (LECA) shared by all living eukaryotes ... including fungi, protists, plants, and animals. In the three-domain model, eukaryotes belong to a separate branch that shares a ...

The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is microbial, with plants, animals and fungi representing only three of some 60–200 lineages of eukaryotes. Many of these microbial lineages are understudied, yet the ...

Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi ... plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm ...

How did eukaryotic organisms become so much more ... although the DNA-binding motif is highly conserved among plants and animals, the remainder of these organisms' protein sequences is often ...