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Official speed | 77.42 wpm (104.78 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | July 2, 2018 2:47:49am UTC |
Race Finish | July 2, 2018 2:49:34am UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 4) |
Accuracy | 95.0% |
Points | 129.03 |
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. |