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A proposed theory in the history of evolution where prokaryotic cells engulfed aerobic heterotrophic prokaryotes and photosynthesis prokaryotes is called?

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This theory is called endosymbiosis.
Think this is how chloroplasts came into being as well as mitochondria.
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