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1) Chloroplasts are believed to have originated through endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria. They contain their own genome and carry out photosynthesis. 2) There are primary and secondary chloroplast lineages. Primary chloroplasts have a double membrane while secondary have three or more membranes, indicating multiple endosymbiotic events. 3) Chloroplast genomes have undergone massive reduction in size and gene content since the ancestral cyanobacterial endosymbiont, with many genes now encoded in the nucleu
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