Abstract
Endosymbiotic theory of organellar origin is an explanation of evolution. Visually understandable schemes showing cell engulfment events give misunderstanding that these are cytological events. Evolutionary explanation of various photosynthetic organisms necessitates variation in characters, inheritance of characters, and natural selection of various characters. The trait “photosynthesis in the chloroplast” depends on the characters encoded by the chloroplast genome as well as the characters encoded by the nuclear genome. If we admit that the chloroplast is an endosymbiont, chloroplast DNA and the characters encoded thereby are inherited with the chloroplast. However, proteins and lipids are not inherited by themselves.
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Sato, N. (2019). Re-examination of the “Endosymbiotic Event”. In: Endosymbiotic Theories of Organelles Revisited. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1161-5_8
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