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  2. Symbiogenesis - Wikipedia

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    These fossils can still be identified as derived post-nuclear eukaryotes with a sophisticated, morphology-generating cytoskeleton sustained by mitochondria. [53] This fossil evidence indicates that endosymbiotic acquisition of alphaproteobacteria must have occurred before 1.6 Gya. Molecular clocks have also been used to estimate the last ...

  3. Endosymbiont - Wikipedia

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    Ruthmannia lives inside the animal's digestive cells. Grellia lives permanently inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the first known symbiont to do so. [51] Paracatenula is a flatworm which have lived in symbiosis with an endosymbiotic bacteria for 500 million years. The bacteria produce numerous small, droplet-like vesicles that provide the ...

  4. Mitochondrial DNA - Wikipedia

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    This theory is called the endosymbiotic theory. In the cells of extant organisms, the vast majority of the proteins in the mitochondria (numbering approximately 1500 different types in mammals ) are coded by nuclear DNA , but the genes for some, if not most, of them are thought to be of bacterial origin, having been transferred to the ...

  5. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    The endosymbiotic theory explains the origin of mitochondria and plastids (including chloroplasts), which are organelles of eukaryotic cells, as the incorporation of an ancient prokaryotic cell into ancient eukaryotic cell.

  6. Reductive evolution - Wikipedia

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    Reductive evolution [4] is the basis behind the Endosymbiotic Theory, which states that Eukaryotes absorbed other microorganisms (Eukaryotes and archaea) for their metabolites produced. The absorbed organisms undergo reductive evolution, deleting genes that were deemed nonessential or non-beneficial to the cell in its specific niche in the host.

  7. Horizontal gene transfer - Wikipedia

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    As stated in the endosymbiotic theory, chloroplasts and mitochondria probably originated as bacterial endosymbionts of a progenitor to the eukaryotic cell. [ 101 ] Organelle to organelle

  8. Ivan Wallin - Wikipedia

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    Ivan Emanuel Wallin (22 January 1883 – 6 March 1969) [1] was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. [2] Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man", he claimed that mitochondria, which are cell organelles, were once independent bacteria, as supported by his comparative studies and culture of isolated mitochondria. [3]

  9. Lynn Margulis - Wikipedia

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    This formed the first experimental evidence for the symbiogenesis theory. [8] The endosymbiosis theory of organogenesis became widely accepted in the early 1980s, after the genetic material of mitochondria and chloroplasts had been found to be significantly different from that of the symbiont's nuclear DNA. [24]