Well, they had to have a receptive cell to bootstrap this thing, that is true. Yet, since we're talking about mycoplasma here, they don't have a cell wall (onl

Well, they had to have a receptive cell to bootstrap this thing, that is true. Yet, since we're talking about mycoplasma here, they don't have a cell wall (only plasma membrane) nor mitochondria (only eukaryotes have those). The new minimal genome really has to synthesize everything needed by the cell to grow and divide.