The Evolution of Eukaryotic Cells Most Likely Involved

question 31

Multiple Choice

The evolution of eukaryotic cells most likely involved

• A) anaerobic archaea taking up residence inside a larger bacterial host cell to escape toxic oxygen-the anaerobic bacterium evolved into chloroplasts.
• B) acquisition of an endomembrane system and subsequent evolution of mitochondria from a portion of the Golgi apparatus.
• C) an endosymbiotic fungal cell evolving into the nucleus.
• D) endosymbiosis of an aerobic bacterium in a larger host cell-the endosymbiont evolved into mitochondria.
• E) evolutionary processes independent from prokaryotic cells, as the eukaryotic cells were found in an environment richer in oxygen.

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