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  2. Cellularization - Wikipedia

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    It is a theory to explain the origin of the Metazoa. The idea was proposed by Hadži (1953) [4] and Hanson (1977). [13] This cellularization (syncytial) theory states that metazoans evolved from a unicellular ciliate with multiple nuclei that went through cellularization. Firstly, the ciliate developed a ventral mouth for feeding and all nuclei ...

  3. Evolution of cells - Wikipedia

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    One hypothesis is that the first nucleated cell arose from two distinctly different ancient prokaryotic (non-nucleated) species that had formed a symbiotic relationship with one another to carry out different aspects of metabolism. One partner of this symbiosis is proposed to be a bacterial cell, and the other an archaeal cell.

  4. Last universal common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    A proposed, earlier, non-cellular ancestor to LUCA is the First universal common ancestor (FUCA). [72] [73] FUCA would therefore be the ancestor to every modern cell as well as ancient, now-extinct cellular lineages not descendant of LUCA. FUCA is assumed to have had other descendants than LUCA, none of which have modern descendants.

  5. Cell theory - Wikipedia

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    One observation was from very thin slices of bottle cork. Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny pores that he named "cells". Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny pores that he named "cells". This came from the Latin word Cella , meaning ‘a small room’ like monks lived in, and also Cellulae , which meant the six-sided cell of a honeycomb.

  6. Eukaryogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Whatever happened, many lineages must have been created, but the LECA either out-competed or came together with the other lineages to form a single point of origin for the eukaryotes. [12] Nick Lane and William Martin have argued that mitochondria came first, on the grounds that energy had been the limiting factor on the size of the prokaryotic ...

  7. Endosymbiont - Wikipedia

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    An overview of the endosymbiosis theory of eukaryote origin (symbiogenesis). Symbiogenesis theory holds that eukaryotes evolved via absorbing prokaryotes. Typically, one organism envelopes a bacterium and the two evolve a mutualistic relationship. The absorbed bacteria (the endosymbiont) eventually lives exclusively within the host cells.

  8. Abiogenesis - Wikipedia

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    The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known to be abundant in the universe, [177] [178] [179] including in comets, [180] and assumed to be abundant in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a major role in the origin of life by mediating the synthesis of RNA ...

  9. Viral eukaryogenesis - Wikipedia

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    The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis posits that eukaryotes are composed of three ancestral elements: a viral component that became the modern nucleus; a prokaryotic cell (an archaeon according to the eocyte hypothesis) which donated the cytoplasm and cell membrane of modern cells; and another prokaryotic cell (here bacterium) that, by endocytosis, became the modern mitochondrion or chloroplast.