Interdependence and Symbiosis

Interdependence and Symbiosis. Randall Niles thinks about the symbiotic relationships throughout our world and the process of Co-Evolution that would have been required.

After a recent dive trip in the Caribbean, I brought back a deeper appreciation for the wonder of symbiotic relationships on our planet. After eight dives on various reefs and wrecks, Im awestruck by the wonder of symbiosis.

As we remember from middle school science class, symbiosis describes the mutual relationship between certain types of organic life. Remarkably, many of these interdependent relationships are totally required for survival, right from the start.

For instance, coral reef ecosystems require mutualism of various organisms and algae to survive and grow. Land ecosystems require plants converting carbon from the air, and fungi extracting minerals from the ground. Herbivores need micro-organisms in their digestive tract to convert plant matter to energy, and many flowering plants require unique insects to pollinate and reproduce.

You get the point Our planet is finely-tuned with a wide variety of necessary, symbiotic relationships. Without them, many interdependent organisms cease to exist.

While delayed in Miami, I researched symbiosis and kept coming across the scientific concept of co-evolution. Co-evolution is the attempt to address the myriad of plant, animal, fungi, and micro-organism relationships that are totally interdependent and required for mutual survival. In a nutshell, co-evolution declares that the countless miracles of Darwinian evolution didnt just happen one at a time, in a distinct tree of changing species, but at least two at a time, side-by-side, at the exact same moment in genetic history.

Wow, symbiosis puts a whole new spin on evolutionary theory.

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[ploky123]

@bigvolcano You realize that half of what you just said made absolutely no sense. he was just bringing up the idea. he's not a scientist. You don't have to be a scientist to have an epiphany.

[bigvolcano]

You really should do a research methodologys class be for you go on with more of this waffle-it all ways seems like you charicters are repressing somthing! Your so bent and this fear in side you makes you blind. Try being honest and get an education!

[TheScienceFoundation]

That's funny because an actual peer reviewed paper says its mostly due to environmental factors

hmg(.)oxfordjournals dawt org/cgi/content/full/14/suppl_­1/R11

[JonathanMcLatchie]

By the way, on clones, clones do have the same genotype but their phenotype is not identical, resulting in part from factors such as the interaction of the individual's genes and the developmental environment of the uterus.

[TheScienceFoundation]

It's possible, in placental function, mammalian eggs aren't all that different from one another

[JonathanMcLatchie]

Are you asserting that if one were to place the DNA from a different species, say from a sheep, into a human egg, that a sheep would be able to develop from a human egg?

[TheScienceFoundation]

Yes, thats the claim, that clones are not identical copies, genome dawt gov disagrees with you and you haven't given any source for your claim at all.

[JonathanMcLatchie]

Why is it, then, that when you clone a specimen the clone is not an identical copy? The location of the information controlling the embryonic developmental pathway is not well understood. But it has to be enclosed somewhere within the egg. Eggs do contain several structures (such as microtubules and membrane patterns) that are known to influence the development of the embryo independently of the DNA. Placing foreign DNA into an egg does not change the species of the egg or embryo.

[TheScienceFoundation]

Where are you getting that a clone is not an identical copy?

There is no genetic information in the egg, the nucleus is removed pre-fusion

[JonathanMcLatchie]

No, a clone is not an identical copy. The phenotype of the clone would depend in large measure on information in the enucleated egg that received the DNA.