Jason (altaria13)

Race #731

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Official speed 67.88 wpm (119.50 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 28, 2019 1:50:56am UTC
Race Finish September 28, 2019 1:52:55am UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 113.13
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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.