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4. Describe the endosymbiotic theory and what it means to the evolution of

eukaryotic organisms.

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it explains how eukaryotes came from ancestral prokaryotes.

it theorizes that some organelles (mitochondria and chloroplasts), evolved from free-living prokaryotes that were overtaken and subsequently became obligate endosymbionants.

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