What did chloroplasts evolve from according to the endosymbiotic hypothesis?

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Jeyaram · Answer 1 · 2016-01-14T07:59:02+0000

According to symbiogenesis or endosymbiotic hypothesis, plastids like chloroplasts evolved from cyanobacteria, specifically the nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria. This theory was first proposed by Konstantin Merechowsky in 1910.

What did chloroplasts evolve from according to the endosymbiotic hypothesis?

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