What is the process of endosymbiosis?

Answer 1

In endosymbiosis an organism lives to mutual benefit within the body or cells of another organism.

Many cases of endosymbiosis are obligate, meaning that without the other, neither the host nor the endosymbiont could survive.

Eukaryotic cells are thought to have evolved from early prokaryotes that were engulfed by phagocytosis. There is strong evidence that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once primitive bacterial cells. Endosymbiosis is the hypothesised process by which prokaryotes gave rise to the first eukaryotic cells. Endosymbiosis also explains the origin of mitochondria and chloroplast.

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Answer 2

Cooper Alexander

Endosymbiosis involves one organism living inside another, forming a mutually beneficial relationship. In the context of evolution, it's a theory explaining the origin of eukaryotic cells with organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts.

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