Sentences with phrase «as endosymbiotic»

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Endosymbiotic theory, that attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants was greatly advanced by the seminal work of biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1960s.

Besides endosymbiotic - based metabolism, the other great evolutionary innovation of the Eukaryotes that occured in the Proterozoic was the ability to reproduce sexually, making genetic diversity possible, and as a consequence, greatly enhanced the ability to adapt to and survive environmental changes.

His work has contributed to the emerging consensus that the endosymbiotic theory is correct; this idea proposes that mitochondria, chloroplasts, and perhaps other organelles of eukaryotic cells originated as prokaryote endosymbionts, which came to live inside eukaryotic cells.

It was not until 1967 before the endosymbiotic theory was re-popularized again by the late Lynn Margulis, by a model known as the Serial Endosymbiosis Theory, or SET [2].

After this, the theory fell out of grace, possibly due to the college textbook of E.B. Wilson, who regarded endosymbiotic theories as «too fanciful».