All of the following support the endosymbiotic theory that ancestors of mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent, free-living prokaryotes EXCEPT:

All of the following support the endosymbiotic theory that ancestors of mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent, free-living prokaryotes EXCEPT: Correct Answer Mitochondria and chloroplasts function independently from the eukaryotic host cell.

C. Mitochondria and chloroplasts do not function independently from the eukaryotic host cell. Some of the ancestral mitochondria and chloroplast genes are now located in the genome of the host cell. Thus, respiration and photosynthesis cannot occur without the manufacture of necessary enzymes by the host genome.

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