THAT IS THE PLAIN reading of the hearing on Trumpian immunity. The Court has to be stripped of its usurped powers and cut down to size by first imposing a term limit that will remove the RAT in that putrid building, Roberts, Alito and Thomas, and then the others as they have sat on that bench for a term. Along with the absolute and strict ban on them and their spouses profiting off of anything to do with anything they did on the court.
The Supreme Court, the Corrupt Court is the most corrupt branch of the government and it has been since they were ruling in favor of their own slave-holding.
Holy shit, Sparkles -- this happened and God didn't send you a memo about it?
ReplyDelete"For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism," reports the Independent:
The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants. Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium...
The process involves the algae engulfing the bacterium and providing it with nutrients, energy and protection in return for functions that it could not previously perform — in this instance, the ability to "fix" nitrogen from the air. The algae then incorporates the bacterium as an internal organ called an organelle, which becomes vital to the host's ability to function.
The researchers from the U.S. and Japan who made the discovery said it will offer new insights into the process of evolution, while also holding the potential to fundamentally change agriculture. "This system is a new perspective on nitrogen fixation, and it might provide clues into how such an organelle could be engineered into crop plants," said Dr Coale.
Two papers detailing the research were published in the scientific journals Science and Cell.
I couldn't read the Science article but I did read the abstract and that's not what it said. It said:
DeleteSymbiotic interactions were key to the evolution of chloroplast and mitochondria organelles, which mediate carbon and energy metabolism in eukaryotes. Biological nitrogen fixation, the reduction of abundant atmospheric nitrogen gas (N2) to biologically available ammonia, is a key metabolic process performed exclusively by prokaryotes. Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa, or UCYN-A, is a metabolically streamlined N2-fixing cyanobacterium previously reported to be an endosymbiont of a marine unicellular alga. Here we show that UCYN-A has been tightly integrated into algal cell architecture and organellar division and that it imports proteins encoded by the algal genome. These are characteristics of organelles and show that UCYN-A has evolved beyond endosymbiosis and functions as an early evolutionary stage N2-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast.”
I skimmed the article in Cell and didn't see anywhere where it said that, either. One key point in the conclusion said:
This study does not unequivocally demonstrate that UCYN-A is
an organelle for N2 fixation because, in order to do so, additional
experiments would be necessary to show, for instance, protein
trafficking and/or gene migration between both symbiotic part-
ners, i.e., UCYN-A and B. bigelowii. Moreover, the symbiotic
relationship between the UCYN-A2 sublineage and B. bigelowii
might be occasionally unstable under undetermined culture
conditions, as it has been reported in this and other similar diffi-
cult-to-grow N2 -fixing symbioses. 6,47 Identifying the conditions
triggering the instability of these types of symbioses might help
us to better understand what makes them stay together in the
natural environment. Furthermore, knowing whether UCYN-A
can or cannot be cultivated as a free-living population would
be very informative in respect of its nature. In this regard, at-
tempts to maintain free-living UCYN-A cells have been unsuc-
cessful so far, supporting the nitroplast hypothesis, yet further
attempts are needed to confirm this observation.
Nothing nearly as exciting as the article in the Independent, in fact what the Cell article says proves whoever wrote the newspaper report didn't read it very carefully. I wonder where they got the idea that the phenomenon was something that happened recently, I downloaded the Cell article and might get around to reading it more carefully but since I know you didn't do that, it wouldn't be worth my while to go into any of the points I did see.
I'd like you to tell me what point I made in anything I've written that you imagine this refutes, I could do with a laugh after the Roberts Court fiasco of yesterday. You do realize that nothing about this has anything to do with an instance of Darwinian selection, it's, in fact, exactly the kind of thing that Shapiro, Noble and Margulis have been talking about for decades, the kind of thing that James Shapiro points out is a major part of evolution which is entirely non-Darwinist.
Oh, and which of the geniuses at Duncan's idea of an Athenaeum did you crib the article from? You know the "brain trust" (they really do call the baby blue blog a "brain trust"). They couldn't have looked at the articles and not noticed the discrepancy between what the articles said and the report of it in the newspaper.
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