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Explain the evidence that supports the endsymbiotic theory of chloroplasts and mitochondria

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Mitochondria and chloroplasts cannot grow outside their host cell. Evidence for this is based on the following: Chloroplasts are the same size as prokaryotic cells, divide by binary fission, and, like bacteria, have Fts proteins at their division plane.
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts cannot grow outside the host cell. The evidence is based on the fact that chloroplasts are the same size as prokaryotic cells, It splits by binary fission and, like bacteria, has Fts proteins on the cleavage plane.

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