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Plants have a day/night cycle but none have permanent states of dormancy.

• immibis 1y ago
  By animal standards, plants are permanently dormant. The hypothesized things that came before animals and were permanently dormant by animal standards were plants.
  • jjk166 1y ago
    No, they are not. Dormant doesn't mean stationary. You are not asleep when you are sitting still watching TV.
    • SAI_Peregrinus 1y ago
      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.