Article: The Lives of a Cell

This article mainly focuses on how each individual and organism on this plant is interlocked with each other. In the beginning, the article states that the man is similar to “a lethal force whereas the earth is pictured as something delicate”, overall resulting to the idea that man is embedded within nature. The article says that “we are shared, rented, occupied”. There are organelles in our bodies that are driving our every day movements, and these organelles are not strictly ours. For example, the mitochondria, centrioles, basal bodies, and other organelles work inside our bodies, each with its own special genome. We should believe that these organelles are functioning for our own benefits, but it may be that the organelles are the reason why we are doing movements that we are doing now. It is similar to an example in the article, where green plants cannot be plants or be green without their chloroplast for photosynthesis; these chloroplasts are separate creatures within their own genomes. Overall, the man feels that there is differentiation and speciation, but does not feel separate at all. I agree with his man’s feelings because I believe that all the organelles inside our bodies function as one unit, each relating and leading to one another. We are connected to our inner bodies and how they function and what their outcome is depends on us and the interior of our cells.