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What is the endosymbiotic hypothesis?

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Symbiogenesis, endosymbiotic theory, or serial endosymbiotic theory, is the leading evolutionary theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms
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Answer:According to the Endosymbiotic Theory, the mitochondria and chloroplast in eukaryotic cells were originally aerobic bacteria (prokaryotes) that were consumed by a huge anaerobic bacterium (prokaryote).

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