The Origins of Plastids in Plants

Merech Trowski showed that plants, the equivalent of mitochondria in our bodies, they are called plastids. Those originated from the combination of symbiogenesis of two forms of life,. A type of bacterium that actually fused their bodies, their cells. And that's the origin of plastids in plants. The energy producing process, the name of plants to capture sunlight and produce so much energy is precisely that. Later, Lynn Margulis in about 1970 demonstrated the same process in animal cells. All of our cells contain bacteria.

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