Endosymbiosis and the Evolution of Eukaryotes
What is endosymbiosis?The topic that was brought before is about cell theory.But how do cell form?There are a few main point to explain how the cell form itself.
Endosymbiosis
is the concept of one cell engulfing another and both cells benefiting from the
relationship.
Endosymbiosis
was originally considered after the observation of the similarity between plant
chloroplasts and free-living cyanobacteria.
Endosymbionts may have transferred some of their DNA to the host nucleus, thus
becoming dependent on the host for survival and completing full integration
into a single organism.
The
Endosymbiotic Hypothesis
The
endosymbiotic hypothesis concerns the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts,
two organelles contained within various eukaryotic cells. According to this hypothesis, these organelles
originated as separate prokaryotic organisms that were taken inside a
primordial eukaryotic cell. Such
symbiotic relationships in which two species are dependent upon one another to
varying extents served as crucial elements of the evolutionary progression of
eukaryotic cells.
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