The evolution of complex life

[Cypress]

The long standing assumption is that complex life started two billion years ago when an archaea cell fused with a bacteria cell to create the first eukaryotic cell. The journal Nature is reporting there is some preliminary evidence to support the hypothesis.

A “Missing Link” – Researchers Shed Light on the Origin of Complex Life Forms

https://scitechdaily.com/a-missing-l...ex-life-forms/

[ThatOwlWoman]

Very cool; thanks for posting. I was struck by the name "Asgard" and then what they named the new organism, "Lokiarchaeum ossiferum." Can Thor be far behind?

[Cypress]

Very cool; thanks for posting. I was struck by the name "Asgard" and then what they named the new organism, "Lokiarchaeum ossiferum." Can Thor be far behind?

I was kind of hoping they would start naming scientific phenomena after cartoon characters!

[ThatOwlWoman]

I was kind of hoping they would start naming scientific phenomena after cartoon characters!

Really. I guess "Asgard archaeon" is the biologists' naming equivalent of the "God particle."

[Cypress]

Really. I guess "Asgard archaeon" is the biologists' naming equivalent of the "God particle."

Science geeks are pretty eccentric with naming things.

The word quark never struck me as sounding very scientific, but as of today you are only one of about eight thousand people on the planet who know that 'quark' comes from an obscure line in James Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake.

[AProudLefty]

Very cool; thanks for posting. I was struck by the name "Asgard" and then what they named the new organism, "Lokiarchaeum ossiferum." Can Thor be far behind?

You hammered it home.

[Cypress]

Very cool; thanks for posting. I was struck by the name "Asgard" and then what they named the new organism, "Lokiarchaeum ossiferum." Can Thor be far behind?

One idea is that two billion years ago a bacteria cell enveloped and encased an archaea cell, and the relationship somehow became symbiotic, with the archaea transitioning to becoming a cell nucleus, and thus the first eukaryote cell originated.

[ThatOwlWoman]

One idea is that two billion years ago a bacteria cell enveloped and encased an archaea cell, and the relationship somehow became symbiotic, with the archaea transitioning to becoming a cell nucleus, and thus the first eukaryote cell originated.

Yes. And even today the organelle in our cells that supplies us with energy and which has its own DNA, the mitochondria, is the result of a eukaryote that engulfed another bacterium and began the symbiotic relationship.

[PostmodernProphet]

One idea is that two billion years ago a bacteria cell enveloped and encased an archaea cell, and the relationship somehow became symbiotic, with the archaea transitioning to becoming a cell nucleus, and thus the first eukaryote cell originated.

amusing.......

[Cypress]

Yes. And even today the organelle in our cells that supplies us with energy and which has its own DNA, the mitochondria, is the result of a eukaryote that engulfed another bacterium and began the symbiotic relationship.

It seems like one of the most exciting areas of scientific research because we have a lot of hypotheses, but there is a whole lot we don't know about his this happened

[Geeko Sportivo]

Ive' always been amazed at the way Cells and Solar Systems relate! Just an observation.

The sun is like the nucleus of a cell because it is the source of power for everything in the solar system just like the nucleus is the source of power for every process in the cell. membrane controls what goes in or comes out of the cell.

It is an interesting analogy if nothing else!

https://prezi.com/jeugum9gkoql/the-s...-cell-analogy/

[Cypress]

amusing.......

It's a better hypothesis than a guy waiving a magic wand and causing eukaryotic cells to appear from nowhere.

[PostmodernProphet]

It's a better hypothesis than a guy waiving a magic wand and causing eukaryotic cells to appear from nowhere.

actually, it isn't an hypothesis......you should have stuck with calling it an idea.....

[AProudLefty]

actually, it isn't an hypothesis......you should have stuck with calling it an idea.....

Um an hypothesis is an idea.

[Doc Dutch]

It's a better hypothesis than a guy waiving a magic wand and causing eukaryotic cells to appear from nowhere.

Or, in Pmp's case, a pitchfork.