Endosymbiosis (Episode 96)

Endosymbiosis is the story of how ‘complex’ cells supposedly evolved from ‘simpler’ ones. The cells considered most complex, like animal and plant cells, are called eukaryotic, while cells like bacteria are prokaryotic. How did eukaryotic cells get some of the structures prokaryotes lack? Textbooks say these structures evolved when a larger cell engulfed some smaller ones, but let’s think about that.
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CITED REFERENCES
• Jane Reece, et al., Campbell biology, Canadian ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2014), 619.
• Bateman, Andrew. "Division of Labour in a Matrix, Rather than Phagocytosis or Endosymbiosis, as a Route for the Origin of Eukaryotic Cells." Biology Direct 15 (2020): 1-33.
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[thepennycrafters]

thank you so much for this video! I have an assignment and needed some critical thinking answers to provide to counter this theory.