Biology Questions and Answers

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Biology Questions and Answers


molecules from the environment setting
out an evolutionary selection.



  1. What is the evolutionary
    origin of the internal
    membranous organelles of the
    cell?


It is accepted that the internal


membranous oeukaryotic, like the Golgi arganelles of thepparatus a (^) nd
the endoplasmic reticulum, appeared
from invamembrane of primitive cells.ginations of the external



  1. How have prokaryotic cells
    given origin to aerobic
    eukaryotic cells and to
    photosynthetic aerobic
    eukaryotic cells?


According to the most accepted


hypothesis aerobic eukaryotic cellsemerged from the association of aerobic (^)
prokaryotes engulfed by primitive
anaerobic eukaryhave been the origin of mitochonotic cells. This wdriaould
that thus would have primitively been
aerobic banaerobes. This hypothesis isacteria engulfed by eukaryotic called the (^)
endosymbioticof mitochondria. hypothesis on the origin
Chloroplasts would also havby endosymbiosis from the entry ofe appeared
photosynthetic prokaryotes into aerobic
eukaryotes, bmutualist ecological interaction.oth establishing a



  1. What evidence
    strengthens the hypothesis
    that chloroplasts could have
    been photosynthetic
    prokaryotes and mitochondria
    could have been aerobic
    prokaryotes?
    The fact that chloroplasts are the


organelles responsiblphotosynthesis in plants leads to the for (^) e
supposition that before symbiosis they
were autotropreason that mitochohic prokaryndria are the centerotes. For the (^)
of the aerobic cellular respiration, the
powerhouse of the eukaryoticsupposed that they were once aerobic cell, it is
prokaryotes.
The endosymbithe emergence of aerobic anotic hypothesis to explaind
autotrophic estrengthened further by the followiukaryotic beings is (^) ng
evidence: chloroplasts as well as
mitochosimilar to bacterial DNA; cndria have their own DNA,hloroplasts (^)
and mitochoby binary division, ndria reproduce asexlike bacteria do; bothually (^)
organelles have ribosomes and
synthesize proteins.



  1. How did the first
    fermenting autotrophs
    appeared? What about the
    first aerobic beings?
    The heterotrophic hypothesis asserts


that thfermenting e first living heterotrophs. Fermbeings were theentation (^)
released carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and then
the atmospthis gas. By mutation anhere became ed naturalnriched by
selection organisms capable of using
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