Bacteria as the backbone of life (Introduction)
by David Turell 
, Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 15:56 (3389 days ago)
They are here since the beginning and are the underpinnings of all life:- "Bacteria are like smartphones. Each phone comes out of the factory with standard hardware and operating system (core genome), but gains a unique combination of capabilities through apps (accessory genes) downloaded through the internet (by horizontal gene transfer)."-"We increasingly recognise the vital roles played by bacterial communities, such as those in our gut or on the roots of plants. Many researchers have used variation in a standard core gene to draw up lists of the species in a community, but the new research shows that a list of names is not sufficient."- Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-personalities-bacteria.html#jCp
Bacteria as the backbone of life
by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, January 15, 2015, 10:25 (3389 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by Balance_Maintained, Thursday, January 15, 2015, 10:31
This fits VERY strongly with my programming analogy, and also with the point I've been trying to make over the last few years that the order of creation is the way it is because it HAD to happen that way in order to support life.- This Article Tries to trace speciation, and even has to struggle with that.->The researchers also traced 16 "housekeeping genes," important for survival, through each of the 56 strains. They tracked how the genes shifted position through the genome and changed, and used those changes to track when each lineage of bacteria split off from one another. For each gene, the researchers were able to create a phylogenetic or 'family' tree that grouped the Aeromonas into species, and then showed how those species were related to each other. Species that shared identical or very close versions of a housekeeping gene could be thought of as siblings, while species with quite different versions of that gene were more like distant cousins. Except there was a problem. "None of those trees agreed," says Gogarten.
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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.
Bacteria as the backbone of life
by David Turell , Thursday, January 15, 2015, 15:57 (3388 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained
Tony: This fits VERY strongly with my programming analogy, and also with the point I've been trying to make over the last few years that the order of creation is the way it is because it HAD to happen that way in order to support life.- Which is why I feel strongly that the bush of life has to be that bushy. It is part of a necessary process to develop the proper balance in advancing life. Just as our DNA has to have inclusive retroviruses to help in the regulation of neural processes.( see today's entry)