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If it can be done, it will be done. Mitochondria is a pita, so sure some enterprising cell decided to figure out a way to do without it and it did.
by x5n1 10y ago
If it can be done, it will be done. Mitochondria is a pita, so sure some enterprising cell decided to figure out a way to do without it and it did.
- viewer5 10y ago> Mitochondria is a pita What's troublesome about mitochondria?
- x5n1 10y agoMitochondria mutates at very fast rates because of the fact that it's constantly exposed to free radicals. Apparently sexual evolution occurred because of mitochondria
- gherkin0 10y agoFree-radicals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging#Mitochondrial_theory_of_aging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging#M...
- marcosdumay 10y agoYou'll get those in any respiration cycle based on oxygen. Mixing extremely reactive substances will destroy something. It's better to just deal with it, and reconstruct whatever is damaged - the path our body tries hard to take.
- lkrubner 10y ago"If it can be done, it will be done" suggests a rational market (or rational system) that can explore all possibilities. However, arguments for "incompetent design" strongly suggest that the system is not rational: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design