{"id":641396,"date":"2019-12-20T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641396"},"modified":"2019-12-20T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:52:12","slug":"a-step-closer-to-understanding-evolution-mitochondrial-division-conserved-across-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641396","title":{"rendered":"A step closer to understanding evolution: Mitochondrial division conserved across species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellular origin is well explained by the &#8220;endosymbiotic theory,&#8221; which famously states that higher organisms called &#8220;eukaryotes&#8221; have evolved from more primitive single-celled organisms called &#8220;prokaryotes.&#8221; This theory also explains that mitochondria\u2014energy-producing factories of the cell\u2014are actually derived from prokaryotic bacteria, as part of a process called &#8220;endosymbiosis.&#8221; Biologists believe that their common ancestry is why the structure of mitochondria is &#8220;conserved&#8221; in eukaryotes, meaning that it is very similar across different species\u2014from the simplest to most complex organisms.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-closer-evolution-mitochondrial-division-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A step closer to understanding evolution: Mitochondrial division conserved across species<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellular origin is well explained by the &#8220;endosymbiotic theory,&#8221; which famously states that higher organisms called &#8220;eukaryotes&#8221; have evolved from more primitive single-celled organisms called &#8220;prokaryotes.&#8221; This theory also explains&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}