Endosymbiotic Theory: How Cells Have Evolved Over Time

For my self-selected assignment I decided to look further in depth into the Endosymbiotic theory, which describes how cells have evolved over time. I chose this particular field of study because I found it very interesting of how cells could fuse together to form a more advance cell that is capable of new and more complex functions than before. I also found it interesting that it describes how we as human’s aka multicellular organisms were begging to be formed. However, the process behind the evolution of cells is a lot more complicated than just two cells fusing together. The Endosymbiotic theory states that long time ago when there were only single celled organism, that two different cells, one large host cell ingested one bacteria cell. When the host cell ingested the bacteria cell it used its energy making capability’s to help sustain its own function and in …show more content…
For example, in class we did not go in depth as much as the readings did, but there were still a lot of similarities between the two. In class we talked about how the mitochondria and chloroplast once were separate, but to evolve they joined with a larger host cell to protect them and they in turn provided the extra energy needed to make the host cell function. However, the text went into more detail describing how and why it happened and the significance behind the act. That being said there were also a couple of new terms that I learned when further researching the Endosymbiotic theory. For example, one term that did not know before reading the text was, endosymbiotic. This is why I picked this article because I wanted to find out what this word meant and what the theory was behind it. From further researching what endosymbiotic was, I got a strong understanding of what it is and the whole theory behind it. What was best about this research was that it did not even take a long