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Chapter 26, Problem 4TY
The endosymbiosis hypothesis explaining the evolution of eukaryotic cells is supported by
- a. DNA-sequencing analysis comparing bacterial genomes, mitochondrial genomes, and eukaryotic nuclear genomes.
- b. naturally occurring examples of endosymbiotic relationships between bacterial cells and eukaryotic cells.
- c. the presence of DNA in mitochondria and cliloroplasts.
- d. all of the above.
- e. a and b only.
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