Chloroplasts arose from cyanobacteria, mitochondria arose from proteobacteria. Both organelles have conserved their prokaryotic biochemistry, but their genomes are reduced, and most organelle proteins ...
The evolution of intracellular organelles through endosymbiosis was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. Subsequent loss of endosymbiotic organelles, or plastids, has only been ...
As proposed by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, natural selection, the engine that drives evolution, is how species adapt to their environments. Unlike the Neo-Darwinist consensus, the ...