Scientific theories -prokariotic origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts

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My chosen theory is the prokaryotic origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts. This theory explains that mitochondria and chloroplasts which are found in eukaryotic cells evolved from their prokaryotic ancestors. There is another theory which is membrane infolding.

There is very little evidence to support this theory.

The theory I have chosen explains how mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved from bacteria and there is evidence that strongly suggests this. Mitochondria and chloroplasts are different to other membrane enclosed organelles in containing there own single chromosome which is called genome. The nature of these genomes, and close resemblance of the proteins in these organelles to those in some present-day bacteria, strongly suggests that mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved from bacteria that were engulfed by other cells with which they initially lived in symbiosis. The inner membrane of mitochondria and chloroplasts corresponds to the original plasma membrane of the bacterium, while the lumen of these organelles evolved from the bacterial cytosol. As might be expected from such an endocytic origin, these two organelles are surrounded by a double membrane, no vesicles attach to these organelles like they attach to the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Golgi body, which connects the interiors of most of the other membrane-enclosed organelles to each other and to the outside cell.

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Mitochondria and chloroplasts have quite a few more similarities with prokaryotic cells than eukaryotic cells like, the nuclear envelope is absent in prokaryotic cells and these organelles where in the eukaryotic cells it is present. These organelles have single circular chromosomes the same as prokaryotic cells where in eukaryotic cells they have multiple, linear which are wound on nucleosomes. The Golgi apparatus is present in eukaryotic cells and absent in prokaryotic cells and these organelles. The ribosomes for prokaryotic cells are relatively small like mitochondria and chloroplasts whereas they are relatively large in eukaryotic cells.

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