{"id":609,"date":"2011-02-04T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:49:57","slug":"analects-of-the-core-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/04\/analects-of-the-core-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Lane on evolution of cellular complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mitochondria are a silly place to store genes.\u00a0 They are often glibly called the powerhouses of\u00a0 the cell, but the parallel is quite exact.\u00a0 Mitochondrial membranes generate an electric charge, operating across a few millionths of a millimetre, with the same voltage as a bolt of lightning, a thousand times more powerful than domestic writing.\u00a0 To store genes here is like depositing the most precious books of the British Library in a dodgy nuclear power station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Nick Lane, in his discussion of the evolution of cellular complexity, page 109, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Ascending-Great-Inventions-Evolution\/dp\/0393338665\"><em>Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution<\/em><\/a>, a book now studied in <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc106\">CC106: Biodiversity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitochondria are a silly place to store genes.\u00a0 They are often glibly called the powerhouses of\u00a0 the cell, but the parallel is quite exact.\u00a0 Mitochondrial membranes generate an electric charge, operating across a few millionths of a millimetre, with the same voltage as a bolt of lightning, a thousand times more powerful than domestic writing.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,4753,3890,4754,2277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}