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Question	Answer
Endosybiotic theory	Theory that some organelles of eukaryotic cells arose from prokaryotes that came to live, in a symbiotic relationship, inside another cell. Image: bc7c0de9-14ae-43d7-95c0-4cb4438a2690 (image/jpeg)
Spontaneous generation	The idea that bacteria grew from non-living materials, believed at the time Pasteur was doing his research.
Louis Pasteur	A French chemist who disproved the spontaneous generation of microbes and discovered that heat could kill bacteria.
Double membranes of mitochondria and chloroplasts	Expected if these organelles formed by endocytosis of a prokaryote cell.
DNA in mitochondria and chloroplasts	Evidence that these organelles once lived as prokaryotes.
Binary fission in mitochondria and chloroplasts	Evidence that these organelles were once prokaryote cells.

1.5 - The origin of cells - Key terms

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