Ed (eds69)

Race #117

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Official speed 77.37 wpm (104.85 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 3, 2019 2:09:09pm UTC
Race Finish November 3, 2019 2:10:53pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 128.95
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts display similarities with bacteria that led to the endosymbiont theory. This theory states that an early ancestor of eukaryotic cells engulfed an oxygen-using non-photosynthetic prokaryotic cell. Eventually, the engulfed cell formed a relationship with the host cell in which it was enclosed, becoming an endosymbiont, a cell living within another cell. Indeed, over the course of evolution, the host cell and its endosymbiont merged into a single organism, a eukaryotic cell with a mitochondrion. At least one of these cells may have then taken up a photosynthetic prokaryote, becoming the ancestor of eukaryotic cells that contain chloroplasts.