Explain the endosymbiont theory?

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Explain the endosymbiont theory?

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When scientists traced the origin of the eukaryotic cells and studied the organelles they found that the organelles like the chloroplast, mitochondria exhibits few features like some unicellular organisms like cyanobacteria or any unicellular cells devoid of the chloroplast like bacteria. Also, they were unique in the fact that the possess their own genetic material and replicate independently of the host DNA. This led the scientist to discover the endosymbiont theory,

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