Endosymbiosis

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• How do termites demonstrate endosymbiosis?
• What are some examples of primary endosymbiosis?
• What is secondary endosymbiosis?
• What does symbiosis mean?
• What is the process of endosymbiosis?
• What is serial endosymbiosis?
• What is the theory of secondary endosymbiosis?
• What did Lynn Margulis propose the mechanism of endosymbiosis to explain the origin of?
• How did endosymbiosis lead to the formation of eukaryotic organelles?
• Mitochondria and chloroplasts are bacterial relatives living within eukaryotes as a result of what theory?
• What entities were formed by endosymbiosis?
• What is the difference between primary and secondary endosymbiosis?
• The endosymbiotic theory suggests that mitochondria orginated from where?
• What are endosymbiosis and secondary endosymbiosis?
• Consider the mitochondria, chloroplast, and the cytoskeleton. Which of these were acquired by endosymbiosis?
• What is the serial endosymbiotic theory? How does it explain the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts?
• How did prokaryotic cells turn into eukaryotic cells?
• Why is endosymbiosis important?
• Why does endosymbiosis occur?
• Why did endosymbiosis occur?
• What is endosymbiosis in biology?
• What are some examples of endosymbiosis?
• How did endosymbiosis change life on earth?
• How does endosymbiosis relate to evolution?
• How did endosymbiosis happen?
• How is endosymbiosis related to eukaryotic evolution?
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• The theory of endosymbiosis describes the probable evolution of what type of cell?
• How would you define endosymbiotic theory?