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The first plants to come up with ways to live on land accomplished that feat some 580 million

years ago.

But how did they make the jump from water to terra firma?

It looks like they might have had help from bacteria. To better understand the evolution of land plants, researchers looked at the DNA of two species of algae.

Why algae? Well, because land plants evolved from this green goo.

For their study, the team focused on a group of algae known to be the closest living

relatives of land plants.

The scientists compared the genomes of the two algae species to both land plants and other

types of algae.

The goal?

To locate any important genetic similarities.

And the researchers actually discovered some significant matches between the algae species

and land plants.

For example, a gene family called grass, G-R-A-S.

And we were curious where that particular family came from because it had already been studied

before and was known to be

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