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To: sourcery
With this new method for a thorough protein search, they were able to examine thousands of proteins individually

Very interesting research which should yield great benefits.

The article was pretty good too until it got to this part:

Nonetheless, the project was easily thorough enough to net some striking findings. For example, the research revealed that of the 4,200 yeast proteins scrutinized, a full 527 of them -- or about one in eight - work in the energy-converting organelle, the mitochondrion. O'Shea speculates that the mitochondrion may have such a large share of the proteins because, in addition to it vital energy conversion function, this organelle is believed to be derived from a separate organism - a bacterial parasite or pathogen that invaded our ancient ancestral cell.

This of course is ridiculous and totally false. No life can exist without energy and some form of ATP synthesis needs to be used for any cell to obtain that energy. This ATP synthesis takes different forms in different organisms such as plants which use chloroplasts instead of mitochondria, but they all required it from the beginning.

7 posted on 10/16/2003 6:11:22 PM PDT by gore3000 ("To say dogs, mice, and humans are all products of slime plus time is a mystery religion.")
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To: gore3000
The mitochondrion system is not the only energy pathway available to eucaryotes, let alone other micro-organisms.
8 posted on 10/16/2003 6:36:19 PM PDT by sourcery (Moderator bites can be very nasty!)
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