We can sight proof of the everyday Snowball Earth in bacterial DNA
Life
12 February 2021

Bigger than 600 million yearsa move, the Earth modified into mostly lined in ice
RICHARD BIZLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Indicators of a world trouble that occurred around 680 million years ago, identified as Snowball Earth, were camouflage in the DNA of residing micro organism in the oceans. Their genomes camouflage that they simply about died out around this time, says Haiwei Luo at The Chinese language University of Hong Kong.
“Their population dimension grew to transform hugely diminished,” says Luo.
These days, tiny photosynthetic micro organism called Prochlorococcus are extremely great in the surface waters of oceans. A litre of seawater can possess extra than 100 million of …
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