New discovery reveals a parasite that needs no oxygen to live

Science has long thought that multicellular life needed oxygen to survive. It turns out that assumption was wrong as a new DNA information on a parasite has been discovered about a parasite described as jellyfish-like. The parasite lacks the mitochondrial genome and is the first known multicellular organism to lack that genome. Lacking the mitochondrial genome means that the parasite … Continue reading

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