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What is secondary endosymbiosis?

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Secondary endosymbiosis is one of the two types of endosymbiotic interaction which played a major role in the formation of complex organism on Earth.

Secondary endosymbiosis refers to the endosymbiosis of the primary endosymbiotic organism by another eukaryote that is a eukaryote is engulfed by another eukaryote.

The secondary endosymbiosis explains how the eukaryotic organism was formed which can be supported by the double membrane of the chloroplast and the mitochondria.

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