Gametes as Symbiotic Organisms
john....@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Have been trying to find out if anyone is doing work in the
possibility that sexual gametes are symbiotic organisms.
john baker, phd.
Mar...@localaccess.com
Rcjohnsen
From: john....@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2000 8:35 PM
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john baker, phd.
Mar...@localaccess.com
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This is a very interesting question, for it hints at the beginning of
sexuality--the union of two things that become one. I'm no expert on this, but
I've always thought of symbiotes as organisms such as Lichens(a fungus +
Unicellular algae) or rhabdocoel worms with algae where the worm's metabolism
gives off waste that feeds the alga and the algae photsynthesize and give the
worm sugars. In most cases there is a kind of mutualism but the organisms
remain separate within a single more complex form.(I'm not saying this very
well.). In sex, the two gametic nuclei fuse in syngamy to form a single
nucleus. In sex there is nucleic comingling except in parthogenesis(asexual),
and in symbiotes there is no nuclear fusion between the two separate
organisms??--at least to my knowledge. But I'm always willing to learn and
expand my horizons.
Roger
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