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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Will the Next Generation of Life to Evolve on Earth Breath Nitrogen?

6 comments:

BB-Idaho said...

Always something new under the sun. More on this eukaryote here -
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/nitrate-breathing-microorganism-offers-glimpse-into-evolutions-past/ Rather interesting to me. In micro physiology lab, we were studying the oddball Euglena, which contain both
chloroplasts and mitochondria as well as Golgi bodies, nucleus, a light sensitive red eye spot and flagella. Our job that day was to look at them through a microscope and sketch them.
Since I took art too, mine was pretty good. Then, I noticed the girl next to me kept peeking at my sketch instead of her eyepiece. So, I dressed up the red eye spot with some long lashes. We've been married 60 years! Thanks for the reminder.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Great story!

The last biology class I took was in high school. :(

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

btw - I do love how these "parasitic interactions" contribute to Assembly Theory and how bacteria can factor into epigenetics.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Did you read the story of a "lab-created" parasitic interaction? ... they were able to pass on the parasite through RNA

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...cell RNA serving as a kind of "evolutionary bridge" between chemistry and longer DNA strands... in spaces where "locality" is important.

BB-Idaho said...

Only HS biology? You are doing a better job than me -did quite a bit of research with isotopes studying microbe ATP processing.
But now older than dirt - keep us informed!