Answer:
The endosymbiotic theory helps to explain the origin of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts.
Explanation:
The Endosymbiotic Theory. States that organelles such as chloroplasts and mitochondria were once free-living prokaryotes which eventually lived symbiotically within larger cells, forming modern day eukaryotes.
Symbiogenesis, or endosymbiotic theory, is an evolutionary theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms, first articulated in 1905 and 1910 by the Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski, and advanced and substantiated with microbiological evidence by Lynn Margulis in 1967.
The first piece of evidence that needed to be found to support the endosymbiotic hypothesis was whether or not mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA and if this DNA is similar to bacterial DNA. This was later proven to be true for DNA, RNA, ribosomes, chlorophyll (for chloroplasts), and protein synthesis.
