The Bigger Drive

The idea that the bacterial genome is circular and is attached to the cell membrane, it's a nice idea. But there are other structural constraints that people have talked about. One of them is the cell wall so you can't really just grow big very easily or whatever it may be. If you lose the cell wall, you're probably going to die, but if you somehow survive, then maybe you'll be all right. And again, they don't show any sign of becoming large and complex. That's not what's holding bacteria back. I completely agree with you that with a small bacterial genome, whatever the constraints are, you just can't do all this stuff. You need a large

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