Biologists suspect that endosymbiosis gave rise to mitochondria before plastids partly because

a. the products of photosynthesis could not be metabolized without mitochondrial enzymes.
b. almost all eukaryotes have mitochondria, whereas only autotrophic eukaryotes generally have plastids.
c. mitochondrial DNA is less similar to prokaryotic DNA than is plastid DNA.
d. without mitochondrial CO2 production, photosynthesis could not occur.
e. mitochondrial proteins are synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes, whereas plastids utilize their own ribosomes.


Ans: b. almost all eukaryotes have mitochondria, whereas only autotrophic eukaryotes generally have plastids.

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