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ENDOSYMBIOSIS THEORY. "A large and diverse body of evidence supports the notion that mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts), the textbook membrane-bound organelles of eukaryotes, evolved from once free-living bacteria by endosymbiosis." https://lnkd.in/eeAhj-A View in LinkedIn

PROF WOESE. "He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Amherst College in 1950. During his time at Amherst, Woese took only one biology course (Biochemistry, in his senior year) and had "no scientific interest in plants and animals" until advised by William M. Fairbank, then an assistant professor of physics at Amherst, to pursue biophysics at Yale (PhD). " "Leeuwenhoek Medal (1992). Selman A. Waksman Award (1995). National Medal of Science (2000). Crafoord Prize (2003)." https://lnkd.in/eWXThmK View in LinkedIn

CARL RICHARD WOESE. (July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese which revolutionized the discipline of microbiology. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and was professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign." https://lnkd.in/eWXThmK View in LinkedIn

NEW INFO #4. "The detection of a third domain of life by Carl Woese was a very important step in the development of our picture on the animate world, as was the serial endosymbiotic theory of Lynn Margulis, ie, cooperation of merged members constituting eukaryotic cells with a true nucleus." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first weekend on biocrystals. In terms of planetary functioning, these organic-inorganic hybrids made by microscopic creatures have laid down vast geolological sediment beds, locked up enormous quantities of inorganic carbon, and provided the food chain with a giant first step. Whilst it is glib to say from smallness comes greatness, and from simplicity comes complexity, both are true in this case. View in LinkedIn

CANDIDATE FUNCTIONS. "Various functions have been assigned to coccoliths, ranging from protection against grazing, regulation of depth in the water column, or modification of optical properties to favour photosynthesis. However, the frequent correlation of calcification rates with photosynthesis and the often observed continual production and shedding of coccoliths suggests that coccolithophore calcification production may have at least a partial metabolic role." https://lnkd.in/eXTtntg View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESES OF FUNCTION. "Despite the efforts made to discover the function of calcification, none of the various hypotheses are supported by sufficient evidence to have been fully accepted." It is perplexing that such major structures have not yet had a satisfactory function ascribed to them. https://lnkd.in/e2i9eMi View in LinkedIn

NEO-LAMARCKISM. "The neodarwinistic paradigm of chance mutations and selection is refuted nowadays through research results which identify a higher order regulation code in the non-protein coding regions of genome architecture. This higher order regulation code is subject/object to environmental influences which become hereditable, with the effect that a different use of protein coding core components leads to different genetic organization." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT REVIEW OF CALCIFICATION. "The absolute minimum energy cost for the conversion of 1 mol CO2 to carbohydrate is 8.43 mol of absorbed photons (400−700 nm), assuming that the additional ATP needed in addition to that produced in non-cyclic photophosphorylation comes from cyclic photophosphorylation. Considerations of reductive assimilation of nitrate and sulphate, and ATP use in nutrient transport, biosynthesis and maintenance gives a total cost of photosynthetic growth of at least 15.5 mol photons per mol CO2." https://lnkd.in/e2i9eMi View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETICS. "Today, a wide variety of illnesses, behaviors, and other health indicators already have some level of evidence linking them with epigenetic mechanisms, including cancers of almost all types, cognitive dysfunction, and respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, autoimmune, and neurobehavioral illnesses." https://lnkd.in/evZabC3 View in LinkedIn