The Tree of Life
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” — Charles Darwin
A phylogenetic tree created by aligning 6341 5S rDNA sequences. Sequences from bacteria are highlighted in blue, sequences from archea are in in purple, amd sequences from eukaryotes are in green. The tree was created using CLUSTALW, and visualized using Unipro UGENE.