LockStock (lockstock)

Race #852

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Official speed 78.22 wpm (103.71 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 18, 2018 9:54:35am UTC
Race Finish October 18, 2018 9:56:18am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Opponents 2. dzlzrd (72.86 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 130.37
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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.