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The Endosymbiotic Theory proposes that mitochondria and chloroplasts, the organelles of eukaryotic cells that generate energy and photosynthesis respectively, were originally free-living prokaryotic cells. According to the theory, a prokaryotic cell engulfed and did not digest these bacteria, instead forming a symbiotic relationship where the bacteria lived inside the host cell. Evidence for this includes mitochondria and chloroplasts containing circular DNA like bacteria, having a similar internal structur

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