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No one knows for certain, and there is much scientific debate on this issue. Some scientists have speculated that they might have been parts of parasitic organisms that got separated from the machinery for producing the rest of the cell and still managed to infect their hosts, their RNA/DNA being incorporated into the host cell and then being replicated by the host cell's own machinery.

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