Kenneth (pseudoscience)

Race #20

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Official speed 72.55 wpm (111.81 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 11, 2019 7:38:01am UTC
Race Finish June 11, 2019 7:39:53am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 3. noggie (64.69 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 120.92
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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.