Re: Another gem from the library...

[Jerry Zhu <***>]

Judith, this is a good book. thanks, Symboisis is one
of the driving forces for evolution.  It occurs at the
levels of bacteria and social systems(acquisition). 
But I didn't see symbosis occur at the levels of
multicellular organisms.   THere are bacteria inside
an organsim not an organism inside aonther organism.

Jerry


 

--- Judith Rosen <***> wrote:

> Last evening, I found another book, while sorting
> through my father's 
> reference library, that I decided to skim through
> and had another 
> revelation. The book is "The Lives of a Cell; Notes
> of a Biology 
> Watcher" By Lewis Thomas. This isn't your usual
> biology book on cells! 
> The contents lists the following as chapters:
> 
> The Lives of a Cell
> Thoughts for a Countdown
> On Societies as Organisms
> A Fear of Pheromones
> The Music of This Sphere
> An Earnest Proposal
> The Technology of Medicine
> Vibes
> Ceti
> The Long Habit
> Antaeus in Manhattan
> Autonomy
> Organelles as Organisms
> Germs
> Your VeryGood Health
> Social Talk
> Information
> Death in the Open
> Natural Science
> Natural Man
> The Iks
> Computers
> The Planning of Science
> Some Biomythology
> On Various Words
> Living Language
> On Probability and Possibility
> The World's Biggest Membrane
> 
> What got me, in a big way, was the discussion on
> organelles. I've 
> posted quite often on the subject of mitochondrial
> DNA (mtDNA)here and 
> my bafflement on why medical science isn't studying
> the relations 
> between mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA, with an
> eye towards disease 
> pathology resulting from a dysfunction in this
> relation, etc.
> 
> Well, Lewis Thomas began talking about
> chloroplasts-- the organelles 
> in all plant cells which are responsible for
> photosynthesis. 
> Specifically, he discussed the fact that
> chloroplasts have their own 
> DNA as well!!! (ctDNA) I have never heard anything
> about DNA in 
> chloroplasts prior to this, and I'm into plants in a
> big way. So this 
> was an amazing discovery for me, which I have been
> researching ever 
> since.
> 
> I was wondering if I'm the only one, on the list,
> who never heard 
> about this before? (Would you guys admit it???)
> 
> Judith
> 
> 


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