Mitochondria and chloroplasts are bacterial relatives living within eukaryotes as a result of what theory?
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Similarities between the DNA of mitochondria and chloroplasts and the DNA of bacteria are an important line of evidence supporting the endosymbiont theory, which suggests that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as free-living prokaryotic cells.
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