What is the process of endosymbiosis?
1 Answer
Dec 9, 2017
In endosymbiosis an organism lives to mutual benefit within the body or cells of another organism.
Explanation:
Many instances of endosymbiosis are obligate, that is either the endosymbiont or the host cannot survive without the other.
The hypothesised process by which prokaryotes gave rise to the first eukaryotic cells is known as endosymbiosis.
Endosymbiosis also explains the origin of mitochondria and chloroplast. Eukaryotic cells are believed to have evolved from early prokaryotes that were engulfed by phagocytosis. There is compelling evidence that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once primitive bacterial cells.
