(05-06-2024, 08:16 PM)Creaky Wrote: [Video: https://youtu.be/kSavmBlniOI?si=1XGjLSyXKBiHX0eU]This was already posted, some days ago or maybe that was ats?
Anyway, two lifeforms become 1, so 1 lifeform dies, is killed?
So many questions arise from your statement
Makes me wonder if they are alive, how do two living things become one living thing
Becomes an organ for the host?
so two things replicate as a single?
So many questions
So one form dies and from then on, all new forms have this new life form automatically, living singular or as two?
Something about it doesn’t add up,
So easy to just say a few words, “look here”, but no in depth analysis
Thanks for your reply, first of all.
None of the two microbial organisms die but they live in harmony and that's why the name given to this process is called primary endosymbiosis.
Take a look at the two examples I gave you. We know they happened long time ago but they are responsible for the creation of complex life and the creation of plants.
When an archaea engulfed a bacterium around 2.2 billion years ago it resulted in endosymbiosis and the bacterium became what we know now as a mitochondrion. This is the power source of the cell. In the second case an advanced cell containing mitochondria engulfed a cyanobacterium capable of photosynthesis, now known as a chloroplast.
It's very clear what has happened in the past and we have observed the same process very recently even though it's a rare event.
(05-06-2024, 08:42 PM)guyfriday Wrote: While interesting, I have to point out that was a lab created situation. Not to mention where the news came from: Origin of mitochondria by intracellular enslavement of a photosynthetic purple bacterium - PMC (nih.gov) The National Center for Biotechnology Information, those same people that "did not fund" gain of function research, seem to be at it again. I worry about where this new research will lead, another global lockdown, more vaccines for people to "voluntarily-take", or some kind of 21st century Great Mortality? WHO knows, but they aren't saying a thing.
This process is natural and not a result of an experiment in a lab
The link at the bottom is for information on how mitochondria came into existence
The title is this:
"Origin of mitochondria by intracellular enslavement of a photosynthetic purple bacterium"
