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By animal standards, plants are permanently dormant. The hypothesized things that came before animals and were permanently dormant by animal standards were plan
by 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 agoNo, they are not. Dormant doesn't mean stationary. You are not asleep when you are sitting still watching TV.
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoAnd 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.