d (dc37)

Race #9477

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Official speed 99.03 wpm (81.91 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 17, 2017 9:37:16am UTC
Race Finish December 17, 2017 9:38:37am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 4)
Opponents 2. deroche1 (126.56 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 165.05
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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.