What evolutionary event enabled the formation of eukaryotic cells?

Endosymbiosis enabled the formation of eukaryotic cells. In this process, an ancestral cell incorporated other cells that lived inside it and eventually became organelles, such as mitochondria and chloroplasts. Transgression and mass extinction are unrelated geological or evolutionary events, and photosynthesis alone did not create eukaryotic cells.

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