>>12212156how can the cell be the fundamental unit of life when animal cells contain two distinct and separate organisms with their own DNA, and plant cells contain THREE distinct organisms with their own DNA. aka, the nucleus, the mitochondria, and chloroplast.
cells are just a physical structure for environmental regulation, the cell itself is not life and should not be the definition of life. eukaryotic cells are a mutualistic relationship between the nucleus and mitochondria, and in plants, between the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplast.
