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    Carl Richard Woese (/ˈwoʊz/; July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea...
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    It was introduced in the three-domain system of taxonomy devised by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark Wheelis in 1990. According to the domain system...
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    into three domains, namely Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, introduced by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark Wheelis in 1990. The key difference from earlier...
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    Whittaker in 1969. Under the three-domain system of taxonomy, introduced by Carl Woese in 1977, which reflects the evolutionary history of life, the organisms...
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    phylogenies, due to the slow rates of evolution of this region of the gene. Carl Woese and George E. Fox were two of the people who pioneered the use of 16S...
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    today. Archaea were first classified separately from bacteria in 1977 by Carl Woese and George E. Fox, based on their ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. (At that...
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    small modern-day bacteria. The originator of the three-domain system, Carl Woese, stated that in its genetic machinery, the LUCA would have been a "simpler...
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  • before the existence of cells and LUCA. The term progenote was coined by Carl Woese in 1977, around the time he introduced the concept of the three domains...
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    three-domain system which relied on more precise genetic analysis. In 1990, Carl Woese and his colleagues proposed that cellular life consists of three domains...
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  • Woeseian revolution (category Carl Woese)
    stemmed from the work of biophysicist Carl Woese in 1977 from a principle of evolutionary biology designated as Woese's dogma. It states that the evolution...
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  • Woese's dogma is a principle of evolutionary biology first put forth by biophysicist Carl Woese in 1977. It states that the evolution of ribosomal RNA...
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    The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is an interdisciplinary facility for genomics research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
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    Darwinian threshold or Darwinian transition is a term introduced by Carl Woese to describe a transition period during the evolution of the first cells...
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    of domains rather than kingdoms as top level rank being put forward by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler, and Mark Wheelis in 1990, uniting all the eukaryote kingdoms...
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    hypothesis for the origin of life, based on a concept first proposed by Carl Woese in 1967. In 1969, Gilbert was awarded Harvard's Ledlie Prize. In 1972...
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    PMID 432104. Holland L. (22 May 1990). "Woese, Carl in the forefront of bacterial evolution revolution". Scientist. 4 (10). Woese, C. R. (1987). "Bacterial evolution"...
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    the reorganization of the tree of life into the three-domain system by Carl Woese. In addition, the newly recognized factors of symbiogenesis and horizontal...
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  • biology, a scheme of classifying organisms into six kingdoms: Proposed by Carl Woese et al.: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaeabacteria, and...
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    humans and their tremendous economic importance to agriculture. In 1977, Carl Woese proposed dividing prokaryotes into the Bacteria and Archaea (originally...
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    for his cooperation with Carl Woese and made him the founder of research on the Archaea in Germany. In 1990, together with Woese, he proposed the three...
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    and supposed relatives), and Chlorota (algae and land plants). In 1977, Carl Woese and colleagues proposed the fundamental subdivision of the prokaryotes...
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  • As with classifications of others, such as Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker, and Carl Woese, Cavalier-Smith's classification attempts to...
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  • 2 December 2014. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. "Carl Woese | Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology". www.igb.Illinois.edu. Archived...
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  • the College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis. Carl Woese and Otto Kandler with Wheelis wrote the important paper Towards a natural...
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    on 16S ribosomal RNA phylogenetic studies of the late microbiologist Carl Woese and collaborators and colleagues at the University of Illinois, the monophyly...
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  • 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2024. Yardley, William (31 December 2012). "Carl Woese Dies at 84; Discovered Life's 'Third Domain'". The New York Times. Archived...
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    phylum of Pseudomonadota. This phylum was established as Proteobacteria by Carl Woese in 1987 calling it "purple bacteria and their relatives". Purple bacteria...
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    under the Bacteriological Code, the term phylum is preferred. In 1987, Carl Woese, regarded as the forerunner of the molecular phylogeny revolution, divided...
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  • uses cloning, base destroying chemicals, and gel electrophoresis. 1977 – Carl Woese and George E. Fox discover archaebacteria, a third domain of life distinct...
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  • phyla, one of these was proposed in 1987 paper by Carl Woese. The branching order proposed by Carl Woese was based on molecular phylogeny, which was considered...
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