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The orgenelles in question are much shorter in sequence than the procs we now observe. What happened to truncate them? Please provide the evidence for this truncation event.
Presumably, ID Man means the organellar genomes have smaller genomes than those of free living bacteria. Given the long threads of completely science free posts thus far from ID Man he may be referring to something else. However, the truncation event is the ongoing transfer of organellar genes to the nucleus. This is an ongoing process with the observable fact that pseudogene copies (Numts) are accumulating in the nuclear genome of many different species and many mitochondrial specific functional genes were transferred long ago to the nucleus. Both are observable facts. Why would a symbiont need to duplicate function i.e. not lose functions, if its host does it for it? That is the point of symbiosis anyway. The truncation issue is painfully simple if one bothers to do some research as opposed to asserting "goddidit..oops I mean ID dididit"
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