Who discovered ribosomes

Faces of Science Prior to 1977 and Woese’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, many biologists believed that all life on Earth belonged to one of two primary lineages—the In 1996 Woese and colleagues from the University of Illinois and the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, published the first complete genome, or full genetic blueprint, of an organism in the archaea domain and concluded that archaea are more closely related to eukaryotes than to bacteria. The publication of the genome helped to quell ongoing resistance to the idea of a third domain of life in the scientific