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Maybe just bad article or I'm not fully getting it... So when this algae reproduces, do the offspring contain the new organelle? Article mentions something abou
by temp0826 3y ago
Maybe just bad article or I'm not fully getting it... So when this algae reproduces, do the offspring contain the new organelle? Article mentions something about dumping old DNA, but does it incorporate the DNA of the bacterium in the process? Not a biologist by any stretch
- colechristensen 3y agoYes. The organelle replicates with the host cell. As time goes on more and more of the bacterium’s DNA involved in separate survival outside the host just goes away as it further specializes in its task and leaves the rest to the host cell. Chloroplasts and mitochondria had the same kind of beginning.
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- jessekv 3y agoIf I understand your question correctly, the cell devision figure directly addresses it (the answer is yes).