Important Vocab for Test 1

Question 1

monophyletic

Answer 1

consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon

Question 2

endosymbiosis

Answer 2

attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants

Question 3

Secondary endosymbiosis

Answer 3

when a eukaryote cell engulfs another eukaryote cell that has undergone primary endosymbiosis

Question 4

mitosomes

Answer 4

Found in Diplomonads (a protist) instead of actually mitochondria