Adrian (smithya)

Race #9

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Official speed 98.53 wpm (82.33 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 10, 2018 12:22:57pm UTC
Race Finish June 10, 2018 12:24:19pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Opponents 1. rosewolf (128.86 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 164.21
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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.