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The endosymbiotic theory provides an explanation for the origin of chloroplasts. Which trait of chloroplasts supports this explanation?

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Chloroplasts have their own DNA.

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The endosymbiotic theory explains that mitochondria and chloroplasts descended from the same type of bacteria. According to the endosymbiotic theory, a host cell ingested symbiotic bacteria, which specialized into chloroplasts. The evidence of the theory is that mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own circular DNA transcriptional and translational machinery.
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