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Which of the following are thought to have been engulfed by prokaryotic cells and evolved into chloroplasts?

ribosomes
O protozoa
O photosynthetic bacteria
O mitochondria
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Mitochondria

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I would say mitochondria because without this, how would energy be produced?

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Mitochondria and chloroplasts likely evolved from engulfed prokaryotes that once lived as independent organisms. At some point, a eukaryotic cell engulfed an aerobic prokaryote, which then formed an endosymbiotic relationship with the host eukaryote, gradually developing into a mitochondrion.

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