susan (kf7hdw)

Race #580

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Official speed 93.77 wpm (86.51 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 19, 2019 5:30:27pm UTC
Race Finish September 19, 2019 5:31:53pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Opponents 2. gvxx (88.81 wpm)
3. ericliu17 (81.91 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 156.29
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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.