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Action, and there are also structures so distinct from the rest of the cell ‘jelly’, like cells within cells, that the best explanation of their presence is that that is indeed what they are. These semi-autonomous ‘cells within the cell’ are called organelles. As we saw in Chapter Four, Lynn Margulis has explained how the ancestors of the organelles used to be separate, bacteria

John Gribbin

Action, and there are also structures so distinct from the rest of the cell ‘jelly’, like cells within cells, that the best explanation of their presence is that that is indeed what they are. These semi-autonomous ‘cells within the cell’ are called organelles. As we saw in Chapter Four, Lynn Margulis has explained how the ancestors of the organelles used to be separate, bacteria

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About John Gribbin

John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction.