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Official speed | 87.30 wpm (92.92 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | February 8, 2020 11:49:19pm UTC |
Race Finish | February 8, 2020 11:50:52pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (1 of 1) |
Accuracy | 99.0% |
Points | 145.51 |
Text | #3550368 (Length: 676 characters) 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. |