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[[Image:Haeckel.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Ernst Haeckel]]'s [[homology]] arguments were later shown to be erroneous evolutionary speculation and a fraud. Please see: [[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]]]

[[Image:Haeckel.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Ernst Haeckel]]'s [[homology]] arguments were later shown to be erroneous evolutionary speculation and a fraud. Please see: [[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]]]

* Neither mitochondria nor plastids can survive in oxygen or outside the cell, having lost many essential genes required for survival.  

* Neither mitochondria nor plastids can survive in oxygen or outside the cell, having lost many essential genes required for survival.  

* A large cell, especially one equipped for phagocytosis, has vast energetic requirements, which cannot be achieved without the internalisation of energy production (due to the decrease in the surface area to volume ratio as size increases). This implies that, for the cell to gain mitochondria, it could not have been a eukaryote, and must have been a bacterium. This in turn implies that the emergence of the eukaryotes and the formation of mitochondria were achieved simultaneously.

* A large cell, especially one equipped for phagocytosis, has vast energetic requirements, which cannot be achieved without the internalisation of energy production (due to the decrease in the surface area to volume ratio as size increases).

* Genetic analysis of small eukaryotes that lack mitochondria shows that they all still retain genes for mitochondrial proteins.

== History ==

== History ==