DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF WOODY PLANTS AND THEIR MEANINGS
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Question
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About 440 mya (20 my before Prototaxites) a very small fungi ____ appeared in the fossil records. Back then life on land was very sparse. But thanks to this fungi soil was developed because of it’s ____
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leaves and stems
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Tortotubus protuberans
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digestive enzymes
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Fungi fungus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The oldest fossil fungi so far known are probably chytrid-like forms from the Vendian Period (Late Precambrian), found in north Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Minute fossils pulled from remote Arctic Canada could push back the first known appearance of fungi to about one billion years ago-more than 500 million years earlier than scientists had expected.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to a new study published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, the fossilized fungi, called Tortotubus, lived about 440 million years ago.
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