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The First Eukaryotes<br />

• The oldest fossils of eukaryotic cells date back<br />

2.1 billion years<br />

• Eukaryotic cells have a nuclear envelope,<br />

mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and a<br />

cytoskeleton<br />

• The endosymbiont theory proposes that<br />

mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts and<br />

related organelles) were formerly small<br />

prokaryotes living within larger host cells<br />

• An endosymbiont is a cell that lives within a<br />

host cell<br />

AP Biology<br />

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc.

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