Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
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ISBN: 9781259709227
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4.2, Problem 10AYP
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The role of endosymbiosis in the development of eukaryotic cells.

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Endosymbiosis is a hypothesis that explains the evolution of eukaryotic cells like mitochondria in animal and fungi and chloroplast in plants from the prokaryotes. The mitochondria and chloroplast show similarities to the bacterial cells. They have their own DNA and nucleus and are capable of producing protein machinery.

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