(January 20, 2017 at 8:45 pm)Pulse Wrote: Quoting from the article you linked and emphasis mine;
"The modular evolution theory for the origin of ATP synthase suggests that two subunits with independent function, a DNA helicase with ATPase activity and a H+
motor, were able to bind, and the rotation of the motor drove the ATPase activity of the helicase in reverse.[6][10] This complex then evolved greater efficiency and eventually developed into today's intricate ATP synthases. Alternatively, the DNA helicase/H+ motor complex may have had H+
pump activity with the ATPase activity of the helicase driving the H+
motor in reverse.[6] This may have evolved to carry out the reverse reaction and act as an ATP synthase."
Remember ATP is the energy currency of the cell, before ATP Synthase formed there would be no energy currency for ANY PROCESS IN THE CELL, INCLUDING THE FORMATION OF ATP SYTHASE, ITS A VICIOUS CIRCLE MATHILDA.
It is obvious the article has a lot of "mays" and speculation, how did the two seperate components find each other and bind so neatly and became so wonderfully efficient? The article is pure speculation leaving many unanswered questions.
How did the two components form and why? DNA helicase has a specific function, why did it find just the perfect H+ motor and "decide" "This will make a great component to make ATP synthase"? And THEN it went back to the DNA molecule and "said" "Right Ive deiscovered ATP SYnthase now CODE FOR IT so we can keep making it?" How did it become encoded after it miraculously formed??
If the above Materialistic Theory is correct, why doesn't DNA helicase randomly bind to other components in the cell, making it perform random functions, some of which would surely be deleterious to the cell, thereby stopping evolution in its tracks and causing the extinction of every living cell on earth? In other words why did it bind to a H+ motor, and Nothing else, and make a Perfect enzyme and then perfectly encoded it into the DNA??
Guess what, chuckles? See those little blue numbers in the wiki text? Know what they mean? They're citations, and they link directly to the relevant scientific papers where you can learn more about the background to this stuff. Or do you think that scientists just make up what the hell they like and post it on wikipedia?
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