Victor (victor142)

Race #8

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Official speed 81.09 wpm (100.04 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 24, 2018 12:58:13am UTC
Race Finish March 24, 2018 12:59:53am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Opponents 1. teiloq (84.68 wpm)
3. mercury80 (72.18 wpm)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 135.15
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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.