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U.S. scientists say new analyses of cellular structures for making proteins -- the ribosome -- are consistent with a theory of life's early evolution.

The theory of life's early evolution states that life forms branched into three domains: bacteria, certain microbes and eukarya -- the domain that includes plants and humans. The theory was based on 1970s studies by University of Illinois Professor Carl Woese that found differences in the sequence of nucleotides in ribosomes.

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