Mitochondria as Muse for Modern Relationships.
Does True Familial Symbiosis Still Exist in Today’s Society?
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Giant Mitochondria in New York, United States — Image by Author.
"Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the supreme Self, which is the material cause and the support of everything."
Adi Shankara - Atma Bodha
Don’t you wish you could have witnessed key moments in evolutionary history? I’d love to observe the first fish creeping onto land or dinosaurs roaming in all their majesty. But if I could turn back the clock, I think I’d choose to be present as an ancestral eukaryotic cell when endosymbiosis first began over 1.5 billion years ago. Why? For the chance to take part in one of biology’s most pivotal symbiotic dances!
The symbiosis between bacteria and eukaryotic cells is like a partnership where both parties help each other out. The bacteria provide cells with a sort of “superpower,” like the ability to produce energy. In return, the cells give bacteria a safe place to live and the resources they need. This collaboration helped both evolve and become more complex organisms.
Now I know I’m no cellular organelle. Human families are far more complex than microbial mergers. But humour me for a moment as I indulge my fanciful desire to have been there during that revolutionary era as a eukaryotic cell first hosting an alpha-proteobacterium endosymbiont.