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The biochemistry and structure of the eucyte is, within the eukaryotes as a group, much more uniform than one would assume after 3000 million years of evolution. The obvious uniformity of the cell structure within the animal and plant kingdom leads to the conclusion that the basic cellular structure of Precambrian flagellates, possibly the point from which the genetic evolution of the animal and plant kingdom started, was brought to such perfection that only small improvements could be made to the cell during the years of subsequent evolution. Evolution is, therefore, not primarily a characteristic of the cell; rather, the advances of evolution were achieved by the creation of multicellular systems with differentiation and division of labour.
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Mohr, H., Schopfer, P. (1995). The Cell as a Morphological System. In: Plant Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97570-7_3
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