Can you comment on the functions of the mitochondria and the energy cycle in aquatic bacteria?
Well, mitochondria are these very complex organelles inside cells that are playing a
key role in generating energy for life to be possible.
They generate the energy that the cell uses to carry out its operations.
Evolutionary biologists argue that these mitochondria emerge through an evolutionary process where
a primordial cell engulfed a bacterium and that bacterium evolved into a mitochondria.
The problem is that scenario, though it's a cornerstone idea in evolutionary theory, has
some very significant problems.
One of the most significant problems has to do with the process in which mitochondria are
produced inside the cell.
It is such an elaborate process that there's no way to envision how evolution could have
taken a bacteria, converted it into mitochondria that would then be fully integrated into
the cell's biochemical processes.
It's impossible.
It's very hard to imagine how evolution could have produced something like mitochondria.
Yes.