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There are organisms without mitochondria too though. So it’s viable.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > are organisms without mitochondria too though. So it’s viable. True, it's an anaerobic ersatz cnidarian [1] that may be an escaped cancer [2]. [1] https://daily.jstor.org/who-needs-mitochondria-anyway/ https://daily.jstor.org/who-needs-mitochondria-anyway/ [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6343361/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6343361/
  • Rumudiez 2y ago
    > [discovered in] gut bacteria from a researcher’s pet chinchilla wow. we could be surrounded by so many extraordinary organisms and not even know it because there's so much variety just in our own backyards
    • satvikpendem 2y ago
      There was a study where participants were asked to swab their belly buttons and lots of new organisms were found. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/1-458-bacteria-species-new-to-science-found-in-our-belly-buttons/266360/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/1-458-bac...
  • im3w1l 2y ago
    Absolutely fascinating. Especially the exotic multicellularity part. Maybe if it evolves even more multicellularity it will struggle with cancers of its own and have to reevolve tumor suppression, wouldn't that be something?!