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evolutionary process that created organelles. the evolutionary process that created chloroplasts and mitochondria is: multiple choice endosymbiosis. evolution. symbiosis. punctuated equilibrium.
Chloroplasts and mitochondria are thought to have originated through endosymbiosis. This theory posits that free - living prokaryotes were engulfed by ancestral eukaryotic cells and over time, evolved into the organelles we know today. The other options are too general (evolution) or not the specific process (symbiosis is a broader concept, punctuated equilibrium is about evolutionary patterns).
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A. endosymbiosis