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It's neither. It's an organelle that can be found within both plant and animal cells. Mitochondria do seem to resemble some prokaryotic cells and it is thought that the evolutionary origin of mitochondria is a rather extreme form of symbiosis where free living bacteria and their host cells gradually became so interdependent that the bacteria ultimately became an organelle within the host cell.

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