{"id":1197555,"date":"2023-10-29T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197555"},"modified":"2023-10-29T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:07:53","slug":"where-the-heck-did-all-those-structures-inside-complex-cells-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197555","title":{"rendered":"Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Computer illustration of mitochondria, membrane-enclosed cellular organelles that produce energy. (credit: KATERYNA KON\/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY\/GETTY<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event\u2014barring the origin of life itself\u2014this merger radically changed the course of evolution on our planet.<\/p>\n

One cell ended up inside the other and evolved into a structure that schoolkids learn to refer to as the \u201cpowerhouse of the cell\u201d: the mitochondrion. This new structure provided a tremendous energetic advantage to its host\u2014a precondition for the later evolution of complex, multicellular life.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s only part of the story. The mitochondrion<\/a> is not the only important structure within complex, eukaryotic cells. There\u2019s the membrane-bound nucleus, safekeeper of the genome<\/a>. There\u2019s a whole system of internal membranes: the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, peroxisomes and vacuoles\u2014essential for making, transporting, and recycling proteins and other cargo in and around the cell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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