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Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids Learning goals: Students will understand that 1) mitochondria and plastids evolved through endosymbiosis,

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1 Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids Learning goals: Students will understand that 1) mitochondria and plastids evolved through endosymbiosis, and 2) this evolutionary history helps us make sense of the characteristics of these organelles. For the instructor: This short slide set explains endosymbiosis. To integrate it best, use these slides immediately after you’ve discussed plant and animal cellular organelles. Slides 7 and 14 could be cut to save time. Each of the following slides comes with a sample script for the instructor. To review this script, download the PowerPoint file and view the Notes associated with each slide.

2 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane

3 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own DNA Photo from Christian Kukat, Christian A. Wurm, Henrik Spåhr, Maria Falkenberg, Nils-Göran Larsson, and Stefan Jakobs. Super-resolution microscopy reveals that mammalian mitochondrial nucleoids have a uniform size and frequently contain a single copy of mtDNA. PNAS 2011 108 (33) 13534- 13539

4 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own CIRCULAR DNA circular chloroplast chromosome linear mammalian chromosome

5 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own circular DNA their own ribosomes Image from Sukhjit Kaur, Reynald Gillet, Wen Li, Richard Gursky, and Joachim Frank. Cryo-EM visualization of transfer messenger RNA with two SmpBs in a stalled ribosome PNAS 2006 103 (44) 16484-16489.

6 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own circular DNA their own ribosomes multiply by binary fission Mitochondria image © Rockefeller University Press, 1970; originally published in the Journal of Cell Biology 47:373-383. Chloroplast image from Shin-ya Miyagishima. Mechanism of Plastid Division: From a Bacterium to an Organelle. Plant Physiol. 2011 155: 1533-1544.

7 What is unique about the structure of mitochondria and chloroplasts? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own circular DNA their own ribosomes multiply by binary fission

8 Why are mitochondria and chloroplasts so weird? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids double membrane their own circular DNA their own ribosomes multiply by binary fission

9 Why are mitochondria and chloroplasts so weird? Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids Because of their evolutionary history! Both evolved via endosymbiosis.

10 Endosymbiosis in a series 1. Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids

11 Endosymbiosis in a series 1. Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids

12 Endosymbiosis in a series 2. Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids

13 Endosymbiosis in a series 2. Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids

14 Endosymbiosis in a series 3. Evolution connection: Mitochondria and Plastids dinoflagellate euglenoid Dinoflagellate photo by Minami Himemiya. Euglenoid photo by Rogelio Moreno.

15 References: Bhattacharya, D., Yoon, H. S., and Hackett, J. D. (2004). Photosynthetic eukaryotes unite: endosymbiosis connects the dots. Bioessays. 26: 50-60. Chat J., Chalak L., and Petit R. J. (1999). Strict paternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA and maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in intraspecific crosses of kiwifruit. Theoretical & Applied Genetics. 99: 314-322. Emelyanov, V. V. (2001). Rickettsiaceae, Rickettsia-like endosymbionts, and the origin of mitochondria. Bioscience Reports. 21: 1-17. McFadden, G. I. (2001). Primary and secondary endosymbiosis and the origin of plastids. Journal of Phycology. 37: 951-959. Yoon, H. S., Hackett, J. D., Ciniglia, C., Pinto, G., and Bhattacharya, D. (2004). A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21: 809-818


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