{"id":233216,"date":"2026-03-13T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/hidden-dna-in-plants-reveals-a-400-million-year-evolutionary-secret"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:37:58","slug":"hidden-dna-in-plants-reveals-a-400-million-year-evolutionary-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/hidden-dna-in-plants-reveals-a-400-million-year-evolutionary-secret","title":{"rendered":"Hidden DNA in Plants Reveals a 400 Million Year Evolutionary Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-dna-in-plants-reveals-a-400-million-year-evolutionary-secret.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches\u2014some older than flowering plants themselves\u2014revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have heard the phrase deep space, but scientists also study something known as deep time. Modern geneti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches\u2014some older than flowering plants themselves\u2014revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have heard the phrase deep space, but scientists also study something known as deep time. Modern geneti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}