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Q: What role does cyanobacteria play in endosymbiosis?
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Eukaryotic cells acquired mitochondria and chloroplasts by?

By a process called endosymbiosis. The engulfing, for whatever purpose, of the microorganisms that were these now organelles. Google endosymbiotic theory. Lynn Margulis.


How does endosymbiosis play a role in the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryoteAsk us anything?

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Do nitrogen fixing bacteria have chloroplasts?

No bacteria have chloroplasts. Plants have chloroplasts. Chloroplasts were originally cyanobacteria -- they are the results of an endosymbiosis between a cyanobacterium and a eukaryote.


What is one hypothesis regarding plant evolution?

One hypothesis is that plant cells emerged as the product of an endosymbiosis between "primitive" eukaryotic cells and cyanobacteria.


How do scientist think first plants appeared on earth?

They think that the first algae developed as a result of endosymbiosis between primitive eukaryotic cells and cyanobacteria. A similar phenomenon can be seen in amoebae of the species Paulinella chromatophora, with which modern cyanobacteria have formed an endosymbiotic relationship.


What is a sentence for endosymbiosis?

Endosymbiosis is also called as the evolutionary theory. This sentence shows the usage of word Endosymbiosis .


What does Endosymbiosis explain?

Endosymbiosis explains the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes.


What derived characteristics appeared first during the course of plant evolution?

The first would probably have been the more permanent endosymbiosis between the strain of eukaryotic cell that is the basis of the plant kingdom and the cyanobacteria that would become its chloroplasts.


What are sme questions scientists still have about endosymbiosis?

i think were did they got endosymbiosis :)


Is Cyanobacteria a consumers or producers?

The cyanobacteria is a consumer


Is cyan bacteria a plant or animal?

Neither, Cyanobacteria is a prokaryote. Animals and plants are Eukaryotes. They exist in separate domains of life. Photosynthesis originates in prokaryotic cells (bacteria) and plants are descended from eukaryotic protists (green algae) which had formed endosymbiosis with captured bacteria.