k (kb2005)

Race #56

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Official speed 82.18 wpm (98.71 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 27, 2020 11:58:05am UTC
Race Finish August 27, 2020 11:59:43am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 2. mistertfy64 (75.65 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 136.96
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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.