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Yellow Water Lily (Nuphar advena)

Caption: The yellow water lily (Nuphar advena) shows evidence of an ancient genome duplication that may have been a key event in the evolution of flowering plants.

Credit: Yi Hu, Penn State Eberly College of Science Department of Biology

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