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Trees not rot during the carboniferous period?
brian 911 replied to brian 911's topic in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Why did the trees not rot during the carboniferous period? I heard on an "Eden planet earth type program" that as plants moved on to land, fungihad not evolved to break down the cells yet and it took them hundreds ofmillions of years to work it out. Am I correct toassume; that the reason we have an abundance of coal reserves is due to; there being nobiological mechanism (in the form of bacteria or fungi )during the Carboniferous period, to decompose the “ vastswathes of forest that covered the land, which would be laid down andeventually become the coal beds” Any Ideas? Thanks Brian 911