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Depends on your definition of organelle (whether you limit it to plastids/mitochondria, both of which were derived from external independent living cells, or us
by dekhn 2y ago
Depends on your definition of organelle (whether you limit it to plastids/mitochondria, both of which were derived from external independent living cells, or use a more expansive definition that includes more cell compartments that weren't derived from independent living cells).
General acceptance of the endosymbiont theory is a relatively recent (much less than 50 years) phenomenon.
- adastra22 2y ago"General acceptance" is a subjective criteria. But the endosymbiont theory is >60 years old at this point.