What is the endosymbiotic hypothesis about the origin of mitochondria?



What is the endosymbiotic hypothesis about the origin of mitochondria?..

Answer / Robin Gupta

The Endosymbiotic Hypothesis suggests that mitochondria originated from aerobic bacteria that lived inside ancient eukaryotic cells approximately 1.5 to 2 billion years ago. This theory explains how eukaryotic cells came to possess organelles with their own DNA and ribosomes, which are characteristic of prokaryotes.

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