ABSTRACTS
The Putative Evolution of the Animal Eukaryote Cell Ultrastructure
Jerry Bergman
Research in the field of molecular biology and cell ultrastructure has revealed that a vastly greater level of complexity exists in the cell than was envisioned to exist in the entire human body before 1960. Cells are complex machines and, like all machines, their many parts (trillions in the case of cells) must all work in complete harmony yet not interfere with the function of other parts. The cell is not an amorphous bag of water, minerals, grains and food as once thought. Modern research has eloquently revealed it as the most complex machine in the universe. We now know that the eukaryote cell is vastly more complex than the gross anatomy of the entire human body. This review briefly summarizes the enormous complexity of the eukaryotic cell. Also discussed is the lack of evidence for the evolution of these organelles, revealing a “missing link” much larger and of far greater significance than all others. The gap between organelle containing cells, the eukaryotes, and those cells lacking them, the prokaryotes, is greater than any morphological gap between animal body types.