Endocytobiosis
endocytobiosis (noun, pl. endocytobioses;ecology term) – a symbiosis where one symbiont inhabits the cytoplasm of another. Both chloroplasts and mitochondria are cell organelles now widely believed to have evolved from bacteria that once lived as endosymbionts within the cytoplasm of ancestors of eukaryotic cells. The only extant known example of an endocytobiosis is the lichen-like zygomycete Geosiphon pyriforme. Related terms: lichen symbiosis.
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