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Researchers who collaborated in the
included a computational
biologist and a plant biologist. They compared the
of carnivorous plants to non-carnivorous
. They found that meat-eating plants developed from the
ancestor 60 million years ago. A
said: "We were able to trace the
of carnivorous genes back to a duplication
that occurred many millions of years ago." Another researcher said: "The function of these
is related to the ability to sense and digest animals and to utilise their
."
