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Comment by zelos

4 days ago

Mitochondria were(are?) bacteria, so technically we can't live without bacteria really.

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IAmBroom  4 days ago

AFAIK no examples of independent mitochondria exist in nature nor the lab currently, so they (almost certainly) WERE bacteria (by some definition), but ARE NOT currently.

Ship of Theseus, obviously.

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