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Re:Mitochondria Are Alive by aardvark179 on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:21PM (#42090146)
Chloroplasts also evolved from separate organisms and are now effectively organelles. So this is t a one off event.
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Re:Mitochondria Are Alive by ASalazarMX on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:53PM (#42090378)
And even if those hadn't become organelles, who knows if they (or mitocondrias) could have evolved towards multicellular life on their own? They were already organisms to begin with.
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Re:Mitochondria Are Alive by liyamchitayat on Friday November 08, 2024 @04:27PM (#42090606)
Yes! and there are additional cases, like the nitroplasts that we recently discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplast
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