Comment on sussvival instinct

• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Then I have to ask if you were aware that mitochondria were originally external, invasive organisms

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes but mitochondria live in the cytoplasm. I guess I don’t have much of a grasp of size differences that small so it blew me away to think to find a life form inside of the organelle of another lifeform… I thought things were too small at that scale.

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    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Still fuckin crazy that they are in our DNA now.

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