The PEDIGREE of
Chloroplastid

     (Archaeplastida was created when an ancient eukaryote engulfed, in SYMBIOSIS, an ancient blue-green algae)

 "Child(ren)":       Empire of Archaeplastida
 poss. "Partner(s)":       Superempire Corticata   ;   Corticata [Cavalier-Smith model]
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/-- Earth of Cryptic Era (Hadean Eon)   +====> [ 33]
/-- Earth of Basin Groups Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Nectarian Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Lower Imbrian Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Eoarchean Era (Archean Eon)
/-- Non-reproducing Precursor Organism
/-- Earliest life (Based on Peptide Nucleic Acid)
/ or: polyamide nucleic acid
/ or: glycol nucleic acid or: threose nucleic acid
/  \-- Montmorillonite-based Vesicles
/-- Earlier life (Based on RNA)  (3850+ M BC)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Earlier Life (Based on RNA and Protein)
/-- Last Universal Ancestor of Present Life
/ OR: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)   +====> [ 9]
/-- Alkaline hydrothermal vents
/  \-- Tiny cavities in iron sulphide rocks
/-- Proto-Bacteria  (3700 M BC)
/-- Glycobacteria (Traditional Model)
/   / OR: Subkingdom Terrabacteria (Terra-Hydro Model)   +====> [ 45]
/-- Phylum Cyanobacteria  (3000 M BC)
/-- Class Cyanophyceae
/-- Order Gloeobacterales
/  
- Chloroplastid
 

 
  (poss.) ``3-Great Grandchildren:''       Class Trebouxiophyceae   ;   Class Ulvophyceae   ;   Euglenoid Chloroplast   ;   Green Algal Plastid   ;   Branch of Stomatophytes   ;   Red plastid   ;   Infraphylum Eurhodophytina
 

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