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The process by which chloroplasts were derived from photosynthetic bacteria is called

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I would say it could be called the evolution of cyanobacteria, the ancestor of chloroplasts by being engulfed by a eukaryotic cell (the cyanobacteria). Chloroplasts conduct photosynthesis whereby chlorophyll captures the energy from sunlight.
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