Also chloroplasts have own genes and should have been independent organisms like mitochondria long time ago. It is assumed that they have been endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
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Also chloroplasts have own genes and should have been independent organisms like mitochondria long time ago. It is assumed that they have been endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
Thats right! I forgot about that! Will be interesting to see what happens with these animals, though evolution is slow so perhaps we will not get to know in our lifetimes.
But I should add that indeed you could be right and it may be a difficult task as most of the proteins in the chloroplasts are not coded anymore in their own genomes ...