Lynn Margulis Proposes that Organelles come from free living organisms via intracellular symbiosis.
Chloroplasts arise from Cyanobacterium.
Mitochondria arise from paracocci? Purple non-Sulfur Bacteria.
Motility from Spirochetes
Fermentation arises from thermoplasmas
Evidence for the Endosymbiotic Theory.
Chlorplast and Mitochondria have DNA.
Molecules in organelles are more like bacteria than similar molecules in the cytosol.
Sponges establish symbiotic relationships with Algae.
Amoeba form symbioses with pathogenic bacteria.
I will continue to add to this list in greater detail in the course. It may be helpful to build a large table of similarities and differences.
Text iGenetics by Peter J. Russell
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