Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids originate? Their origin is explained by endosymbiosis, the act of a ...

These mitochondria are called hydrogenosomes and allow the cell to gain about 4 mol of ATP ... the cytosol, or even the plastids of other eukaryotes (Figure 1). A fourth category of eukaryotes ...

The new findings imply that chloroplasts once shared their primary function of supplying energy to the larger cell because ...