Question

Mitochondria are thought to have evolved from free-living bacteria that were incorporated into eukaryotic cells by endosymbiosis. Which piece of evidence for this hypothesis is true?
a. Mitochondria can survive and reproduce independently when removed from the host cell.b. New mitochondria are formed by binary fission instead of being replicated during the cell cycle.c. On a phylogenetic tree based on molecular data, the mitochondria appears within the bacterial clade and not near its eukaryotic host.d. Mitochondrial DNA is packaged as a single circular chromosome, similar to that of a bacterium.e. Mitochondria are enclosed by two membranes instead of a single membrane.

Answer 1

Answer: a

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