Annie (anniexu)

Race #238

View Pit Stop page for race #238 by anniexuGhost race

View profile for Annie (anniexu)

Official speed 73.89 wpm (109.78 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start February 12, 2019 6:27:42am UTC
Race Finish February 12, 2019 6:29:32am UTC
Outcome No win (5 of 5)
Opponents 2. giorgi1123 (97.48 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 123.15
Text #3550368 (Length: 676 characters)

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.