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csr86 | 3 years ago

How the children inherited the swallowed organism?

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frostburg|3 years ago

Presumably like we do - (I'm heavily simplifying the complex regulation involved) the mitochondria have their own DNA which gets duplicated when the cell prepares to undergo mitosis, then the two new cells split the results.

anton96|3 years ago

Does that implies that mitochondria also had to evolve at some point to detect duplication of their host cell so they duplicate at the same time?

majkinetor|3 years ago

Bacterial division would get some mitos on either side of the dividing cell. Mitos then proliferate on its own.