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n. -An organelle found in the cells of plants, green algae, red algae, and certain other protists

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  • The earliest angiosperms: Evidence from mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear genomes.
  • By analyzing DNA sequences contained in the plastid of the thecate amoeba Paulinella, researchers have shown that it is a recent endosymbiont whose genome features are...
  • Edit yeah we all know about creo “kinds” and the runaway goddidit speciation/speculation get them to answer a question about mitochondrial endosymbiosis and ask them which one...
  • For the great bulk of our globe is made up of the highly crystallized and non-fossiliferous rocks, which neither contain any elementary principle of life, nor exhibit the...
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