Banzay (coldhands69)

Race #2254

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Official speed 86.43 wpm (93.86 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 13, 2018 2:58:07pm UTC
Race Finish April 13, 2018 2:59:41pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 144.05
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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.