Scientist finds a whole new ’domain’ of life

Posted: 4/6/2011 12:00:00 AM Reads: 269 Submitted By:jeff Category: Science Controversies Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Living things are currently split into three branches or domains – eukaryotes, or complex celled organisms such as animals, plants and humans – and two simple celled microorganism divisions – bacteria and archaea. But now a researcher working with the laboratory of the maverick scientist Dr Craig Venter claims he might have discovered a fourth.

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