For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism

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For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism
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Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life. Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.

Evolution is quite a wondrous and lengthy process, with some random bursts of activity that are responsible for the diversity of life on our planet today. These can happen on large scales like with the evolution of more efficient limbs. They also occur at microscopic cellular level, such as when different parts of the cell were first formed. Now, a team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that has likely not occurred for at least one billion years.

the nitrogen-fixing entity now considered an organelle, is cyan; the algal nucleus is depicted in blue, mitochondria are green, and chloroplasts are lilac. Valentina Loconte/Berkeley Lab They also compared the proteins of isolated UCYN-A bacteria to the proteins inside of the algae cells. The team found that the isolated bacterium can only make roughly half of the proteins it needs. It needs its algal host to provide it with the rest of the proteins necessary for living. “That’s one of the hallmarks of something moving from an endosymbiont to an organelle,” said Zehr.

but this discovery is “one for the textbooks.”

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