Which statement is evidence used to support the endosymbiotic theory?

Mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own DNA, which supports the idea that they originated as independent bacteria that were engulfed by ancestral cells. Choice B is incorrect because these organelles are surrounded by two membranes, not one. Choice C is incorrect because they reproduce by a process similar to bacterial fission, not by mitosis.

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