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Question on procaryotic cells

Meilleur Sebastien meilleus at MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA
Sat Oct 5 00:46:14 EST 1996


Black Orb (blackorb at aol.com) wrote:
: Could someone help me out with this question??
: 
:   -  Why do ribosomes appear to be the first membrane bound organelle that
:      developed in procaryotic cells??
: 
Here's a guess. Maybe it's because ribosomes are essential to proteins
synthesis so they had to appear first? Maybe they allowed optimization and
better evolution in cells because of their role? As I said this is just a
guess without any research.

Sebastien Meilleur, biochemistry student.




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