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What is endosymbiosis in three sentences

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The endosymbiosis theory explains how eukaryotic cells may have evolved from prokaryotic cells. Symbiosis is a close relationship between two different organisms meaning a host cell engulfed a prokaryotic cell capable of photosynthesis. This is where the chloroplast and other plastids originated.

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