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Figure 1: Typical prokaryotic (left) and eukaryotic (right) cells.
Figure 2: The endosymbiont hypothesis for the origin of mitochondria, as currently construed.

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Doolittle, W. A paradigm gets shifty. Nature 392, 15–16 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32033

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