Syntho-sis Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Check this out... This isn't really news to those who keep up on their biology though. "Thermodynamic constraints mean that chemiosmosis is strictly necessary for carbon and energy metabolism in all organisms that grow from simple chemical ingredients [autotrophy] today, and presumably the first free-living cells," said Lane. "Here we consider how the earliest cells might have harnessed a geochemically created force and then learned to make their own." Cheers,
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