In science fiction . . .

[Al B. Sure!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis


I am really out of ****ing touch with modern science!!!

Modern science?

The endosymbiotic (from the Greek: endo- meaning inside and -symbiosis meaning cohabiting) theory was first articulated by the Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski in 1905.[1] Mereschkowski was familiar with work by botanist Andreas Schimper, who had observed in 1883 that the division of chloroplasts in green plants closely resembled that of free-living cyanobacteria, and who had himself tentatively proposed (in a footnote) that green plants had arisen from a symbiotic union of two organisms.[2] Ivan Wallin extended the idea of an endosymbiotic origin to mitochondria in the 1920s.[3]

1883! The idea was just a footnote until the 1960's, though. That's still 50 years ago...

[Lorizael]

Hurray for wiki-****ing-pedia.

[Docfeelgood]

Modern science?



1883! The idea was just a footnote until the 1960's, though. That's still 50 years ago...

You just wait till your old and see how much you have learned has changed

[Docfeelgood]

Seems I vaguely remember this being discussed. Then again I really don't remember to much of anything these days.

[Docfeelgood]

Speaking of memory..... How far back can you remember your classmates names? Or your teachers?

[MrFun]

You just hop and skip from one topic to another, don't ya?

[giblets]

I'm a little surprised a nurse doesn't have a basic grasp of biology.

[DaShi]

Plant life is a branch. But if you want specifics, there was probably a lifeform way back when that was able to eat cyanobacteria and use it as proto-chloroplasts.

Some of us still do.

[Docfeelgood]

I'm a little surprised a nurse doesn't have a basic grasp of biology.

and some wonder why I act like an assh0le.
I don't even remember the phylum. If you don't use this information in over 30 years you lose it.
I have a AS in biology. How much do I remember? very ****ing little.

[Docfeelgood]

You just hop and skip from one topic to another, don't ya?

yea, seem to be doing that a lot lately
As my point to memory loss not using it every day.

[Docfeelgood]

Gribbler you piss me the **** off! I try to make conversation and be sociable but you make me want to just go back to name calling.

[Al B. Sure!]

Gribbler you piss me the **** off! I try to make conversation and be sociable but you make me want to just go back to name calling.

that's because gribbler is a ****ing *******

[giblets]

Gribbler you piss me the **** off! I try to make conversation and be sociable but you make me want to just go back to name calling.

Could you explain what name I called you? I don't think there's any shame in being a nurse.

[DaShi]

Delayed reaction...

[Provost Harrison]

Modern science?



1883! The idea was just a footnote until the 1960's, though. That's still 50 years ago...

Yeah, but this isn't what endosymbiotic theory is about. It is about that many organelles (chloroplasts, mitochondria) actually came into being through a symbiotic relationship between then prokaryotic cells and these organisms resulting, eventually, in the modern eukaryotic cell. But yeah, microscopy is quite an old science.