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What observation led researchers to propose that chloroplasts evolved from Cyanobacteria

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Photosynthesis

Step-by-step explanation:

  • Researchers thought that both chloroplast and Cynobacteria preform photosynthesis as common and hence proposed that chloroplast was evolved from Cynobacteria.
  • Chloroplast are one of the most specialized structures present in plant and algal cells. It is a membrane bound organell and its function is to perform photosynthesis by capturing sunlight with the help chlorophyll pigments(present in chloroplast) and convert it into energy(ATP).
  • Cyanobacteria are also known as blue green algae because they are blueish green in color due of the presence of photosynthetic pigments in it.
  • Cyanobacteria comes under bacteria but they are capable of trapping the sunlight and produce energy without chloroplast. Which shows that they must have some connection with chloroplast.

Result: Cynobacteria are considered as the ancestors of chloroplast.

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