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From: pi@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Paul Ilgenfritz)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Organelle Reproduction
Message-ID: <5180002@hpcuhb.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 23:54:00 GMT
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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.

Thanks for the confirmation, sorry I was to lazy to go to the library.

I can see why analyzing the DNA and RNA of these beasts is such an
exciting topic.  It seems like it may lead to an understanding of how the
first cells evolved.