Jason (jasonw1121)

Race #354

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Official speed 77.59 wpm (104.55 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 2, 2019 9:04:08pm UTC
Race Finish September 2, 2019 9:05:52pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 129.32
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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.