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Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese pioneered the use of gene sequencing, discovered a third domain of life, and upended an entire field.
Jul 19, 2022 · Carl Woese defined Archaea as a new domain and constructed the phylogentic tree of life which shows separation of all living organisms. The phylogenetic tree of life was constructed by Carl Woese using sequencing data of ribosomal RNA genes.
Notably, Woese's elucidation of the tree of life shows the overwhelming diversity of microbial lineages: single-celled organisms represent the vast majority of the biosphere's genetic, metabolic, and ecologic niche diversity. [32]
Aug 13, 2018 · How the microbiologist Carl Woese fundamentally changed the way we think about evolution and the origins of life.
Carl Woese challenged doctrines at the core of 20th-century biology. When microbiologists had declared that a phylogenetic classification of all the bacteria was impossible, Woese began a research program based on comparisons of rRNA to reveal a universal tree of life.
- Jan Sapp, George E. Fox
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Jul 31, 2018 · Centre stage in Quammen’s narrative is Carl Woese (1928–2012), the US microbiologist best known as the discoverer of the Archaea (Archaebacteria) — the ‘third domain’ of life.
Mar 1, 2014 · Carl Woese is most famous as the founder of molecular phylogenetics, the creator of the ribosomal Tree of Life, and the discoverer of the Archaea. 1 - 3 These are indeed some of the defining events in biology over the last half-century.
