Meio (meio)

Race #83

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Official speed 86.60 wpm (93.67 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 16, 2018 4:42:57pm UTC
Race Finish October 16, 2018 4:44:31pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 1. kayak1 (111.88 wpm)
4. tr0y (77.04 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 144.33
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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.