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According to the endosymbiosis theory, scientists believe that early eukaryotes formed from prokaryotes. Why do scientists believe that

prokaryotes existed earlier than eukaryotes?

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User Meziane
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the organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own short dna strands that are not from the nucleus. the only explanation is that they are from prokaryotes !!?

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