Gap Fill - Venus Fly Traps - Level 6

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Researchers in a of fields collaborated in the . They included computational biologist Jörg Schultz and plant Rainer Hedrich. They sequenced and compared the genomes of carnivorous plants to non-carnivorous . They discovered that meat-eating plants developed from the common ancestor about 60 million years ago. Dr Schultz said: "We were able to trace the of carnivorous genes back to a duplication event that occurred millions of years ago in the genome of the last common ancestor of the carnivorous species." Dr Rainer added: "The of these genes is related to the ability to sense and digest animals and to utilise their ."

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