Jennifer (jenniferzed)

Race #1140

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Official speed 70.32 wpm (115.36 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 10, 2017 7:55:50am UTC
Race Finish October 10, 2017 7:57:45am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 1. benjiboyyy (90.04 wpm)
2. hikals (71.46 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 117.21
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts display similarities with bacteria that led to the endosymbiont theory. This theory states that an early ancestor of eukaryotic cells engulfed an oxygen-using non-photosynthetic prokaryotic cell. Eventually, the engulfed cell formed a relationship with the host cell in which it was enclosed, becoming an endosymbiont, a cell living within another cell. Indeed, over the course of evolution, the host cell and its endosymbiont merged into a single organism, a eukaryotic cell with a mitochondrion. At least one of these cells may have then taken up a photosynthetic prokaryote, becoming the ancestor of eukaryotic cells that contain chloroplasts.