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This supposition relies heavily on Oliver Wendell Holmes' oft-quoted observation that Roosevelt was a "second-class intellect but a first class temperament."
These correlations support the supposition that the NA homologies among the sequences are driven by functional constraints of the proteins and not by the need to maintain secondary nucleic acid structure.
Your first supposition was right: Prudie was punning.
The fact that these two separate genes are maintained in M. tuberculosis supports the supposition that they perform different functions.
Until about five years ago, it was generally accepted that there was a prior period (before mitochondria) in the history of eukaryotes [ 2 26 ] . The basal position of eukaryotes lacking mitochondria (amitochondriate) in phylogenetic trees [ 27 ] was consistent with this supposition as was evidence from sequence signatures [ 6 ] . However, molecular phylogenetic studies of several proteins in recent years have suggested that some or all amitochondriate eukaryotes once possessed mitochondria in the past [ 9 ] . Based on this new evidence, most current models for the origin of eukaryotes assume only a single symbiotic or fusion event between an archaebacterium and an α-proteobacterium [ 8 28 29 ] .