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To: gore3000
The mitochondrion system is not the only energy pathway available to eucaryotes,

Yup, and I said that, chloroplasts are another, as I already said.

You're dancing around the point, which is that there certainly are cells which do not require seperate organelles, whether mitocondria or chloroplasts, to produce energy, for instance all procaryotes. Therefore your objection to the theory of a parasitic origin of mitochondria is not valid.

15 posted on 10/16/2003 10:17:52 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
You're dancing around the point, which is that there certainly are cells which do not require seperate organelles, whether mitocondria or chloroplasts, to produce energy, for instance all procaryotes. Therefore your objection to the theory of a parasitic origin of mitochondria is not valid.

Of course it is - because whatever organism it was, already had to have a way to make energy to be alive. Mitochondria, like chloroplasts are not individual organisms any more than the the stomach or the lungs are individual organisms and not even evolutionists are stupid/dishonest enough to claim that stomachs and lungs were parasitic organisms.

17 posted on 10/17/2003 4:25:42 AM PDT by gore3000 ("To say dogs, mice, and humans are all products of slime plus time is a mystery religion.")
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