TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 11501


According to the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells, how did mitochondria originate?

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. from infoldings of the plasma membrane, coupled with mutations of genes for proteins in energy-transfer reactions
  2. from engulfed, originally free-living prokaryotes
  3. by secondary endosymbiosis
  4. from the nuclear envelope folding outward and forming mitochondrial membranes