Joey (minecandy)

Race #261

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Official speed 83.84 wpm (96.76 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 11, 2019 6:05:40pm UTC
Race Finish April 11, 2019 6:07:17pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 2. poem (89.07 wpm)
4. creamdonut (81.98 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 139.73
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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.