Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered

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Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 29, 2012 @09:02PM from the in-the-beginning dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have discovered a benign algae eating protozoan in a lake near Oslo, Norway whose gene sequence does not match any known organism living on earth today, and this beasty combines genetic characteristics across plant, animal, and fungal kingdoms. It is believed to be the closest living organism to the original organisms that spawned all animal life on earth."

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Oblig. by frank_carmody · 2012-04-29 21:12 · Score: 4, Funny

So what's the /. UID of this thing?
1. Re:Oblig. by djl4570 · 2012-04-29 21:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  -1^.5
2. Re:Oblig. by Samantha+Wright · 2012-04-29 21:25 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yeah, it still uses EBCDIC for pretty much everything, like most protists.
  
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3. Re:Oblig. by Chrisq · 2012-04-29 21:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  So what's the /. UID of this thing?
  Judging by the picture in the article, it is none other than Cowboy Neil himself.
4. Re:Oblig. by DanielRavenNest · 2012-04-30 02:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The protozoan was heard shouting "Hey you young species, get off my pond!"
5. Re:Oblig. by PRMan · 2012-04-30 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You didn't ask a scientific question. You asked a theological one. And the responder just told you to RTFM. Classic Slashdot, if you ask me.
  
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Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing by RandomAdam · 2012-04-29 21:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh come on if you are going to use logic, reason and knowledge...oh and R'ingTFA /. is no place for you.

Nice summary though.

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Re: Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Di by Samantha+Wright · 2012-04-29 21:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Nah, we already know what fruit the Tree of Life gave. It's the banana—haven't you seen the totally informative and 100% factual explanation of how perfect it is?
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I eagerly await to see how many moderators and respondents do not realise that this post is sarcastic.

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Re:Very interesting by ByOhTek · 2012-04-29 21:55 · Score: 4, Funny

I think from tfs, it is safe to say it is not a new form of life...

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Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing by RivenAleem · 2012-04-29 22:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Cthulhu's gunna be pretty mad when he wakes up to find people have tramped through his shrubbery.
Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing by Kjella · 2012-04-29 23:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Modern classification is a bit of a mess, because Nature doesn't fit into the neat hierarchical classification system that we grew up with.
Yeah, multiple inheritance is a mess. They should have gone with single inheritance and interfaces instead...

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Re:Read it wrong... by erroneus · 2012-04-30 01:36 · Score: 3, Funny

[music]...breakin' up is hard to do... [/music]
Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing by avgjoe62 · 2012-04-30 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Cthulhu's gunna be pretty mad when he wakes up to find people have tramped through his shrubbery.
You mean then that dead Cthulhu's first words upon waking from a pleasant dream in his house at R'lyeh will be, "Hey! You damned kids get off my lawn!!"

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