Andrew (andrew69314)

Race #3839

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Official speed 87.52 wpm (92.69 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 10, 2019 11:21:47pm UTC
Race Finish September 10, 2019 11:23:20pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Opponents 1. zachattack973 (106.80 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 145.87
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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.