Origin of Life on Earth

AP Biology· difficulty 3/5

The endosymbiotic theory proposes that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated from

  • A

    Self-assembling membranes formed by a primitive eukaryote

  • B

    Free-living prokaryotes engulfed by an ancestral eukaryote

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  • C

    Inverted cell-membrane invaginations within an ancestral eukaryote

  • D

    Viral particles permanently incorporated into an ancestral eukaryote

Explanation

Their double membranes, own DNA, ribosomes, and binary fission all point to bacterial origin.

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