Question 15 • 062mde1 SE ECAD Fall 2025 - Q2 - NM-Biology - S1
Mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own DNA, which supports the idea that they originated as free-living bacteria that were taken in by ancestral cells. They also reproduce by a process similar to bacterial cell division, not by mitosis. The statement that they are surrounded by one membrane is incorrect; they have two membranes.
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