....and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy 32:18
"Scientists have found a clue to why one type of DNA is passed down to children by their mothers — but not their fathers.
“This is a very long-standing mystery in biology — why in so many organisms, [only] the maternal mitochondria are inherited,” says Ding Xue, a geneticist at the University of Colorado Boulder who led the work.
CPS-6 normally controls a process of programmed cell death that helps organisms keep old cells and new cells in balance. But Xue’s team found that during fertilization, CPS-6 could also move into the innermost part of the mitochondria and chop the mitochondrial DNA stored there into pieces. That DNA spells out instructions for critical tasks carried out by the mitochondria. Without the instructions, the mitochondria can’t do their job.
CPS-6 doesn’t work alone, though. Other scientists had previously identified a different process, called autophagy, that helps break down paternal mitochondria after fertilization. Autophagy recruits specialized structures in the egg that carry away pieces of the paternal mitochondria and break them down, like a garbage collection team. The two seem to work together: Without CPS-6 acting as a flag, the autophagy machinery didn’t cart away the unwanted mitochondria as quickly.
“Our study for the first time shows that paternal mitochondria actually cooperate with maternal degradation machinery to ensure that they’re all removed,” Xue says.
When the mitochondria removal process was delayed, the resulting embryos were more likely to die. The finding suggests that paternal mitochondrial DNA somehow interferes with normal development, but scientists don’t yet know why that might be." ScienceNews
Words like "instructions" & "cooperate" = an intelligence behind that level of complexity. IF Darwinian Macro-evolution were true, how could it evolve to this level in the first place without killing itself off?....just asking...
