ULTIMATE COMPUTING - Quantum Consciousness Studies

52 Origin and Evolution of Life
Figure 3.1: Symbiotic ingestion of motile spirochetes by a primitive bacteria,
resulting in the first “eukaryotic” cells. The spirochete’s filamentous proteins
became, according to Sagan-Margulis (1967), the centrioles and cytoskeleton
providing movement and organization of cytoplasm. By Paul Jablonka
This implies that symbiotic organelles which originated as separate organisms
must retain their nucleotide synthesis capabilities. Mitochondria and chloroplasts
have been shown to have their own DNA, however DNA has not been isolated
with centrioles or basal bodies. These cytoskeletal organelles in fact, routinely
self replicate without DNA, although Hartman has shown that RNA may exist in
association with basal bodies. Perhaps centriolar DNA became lost in the
evolutionary shuffle, or the cytoskeleton possesses other mechanisms of