Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!eoph12
From: eoph12@castle.ed.ac.uk (I F Gow)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Organelle Reproduction
Message-ID: <5115@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:13:36 GMT
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Reply-To: eoph12@castle.ed.ac.uk (I F Gow)
Organization: Edinburgh University Dept Physiol
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Organelles reproduce in the same way as their ancestral microbes did,
i.e. by binary fission.   This can be seen on some micrographs as the
organelles appearing like "dumb-bell" structures as they are caught
dividing.


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