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Connor McCormick ☀️
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What’s the biggest open question in biology?
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notdevin
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The delta between energy efficiency within the cell of a single cell organism compared to a multicellular organism, this is in the form of energy available per gene within the organism. The delta is 10,000 - 200,000 times more energy in eukaryotic cells. This unexplained jump is like going from a pedal bike to a rocket ship in one step with no trace of how in between
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Connor McCormick ☀️
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Why is the best measure “per gene”?
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notdevin
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Has to do with the information capacity of a cell. The bacteria are all concise little programs, but no discovery as of yet explains the mechanism by which the cell was able to bridge the gulf and suddenly use much more energy expensive instruction sets Mitochondria are the proposed solution but then those need proposed solutions for how they get in there, stay in there, thrive in there, but not too much. One of the fun options is that the mitochondria split into two warring factions which then, as the theory continues, explains origin of male and female as well
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