Comment by immibis
4 days ago
By animal standards, plants are permanently dormant. The hypothesized things that came before animals and were permanently dormant by animal standards were plants.
4 days ago
By animal standards, plants are permanently dormant. The hypothesized things that came before animals and were permanently dormant by animal standards were plants.
No, they are not. Dormant doesn't mean stationary. You are not asleep when you are sitting still watching TV.
And also plants diverged from a common ancestor with animals, animals didn't evolve from plants. Animals (and all other eukaryotes) probably evolved from something more like the Archaea, which don't seem to have anything resembling sleep.