It is thought that the mitochondrion was once an individual organism, which later became a part and parcel of the eukaryotic cell in the course of evolutionary history. When it was an independent individual, it belonged to the kingdom ___.

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The mitochondrion has its own genetic material, but it does not have a nucleus. Hence, it was a prokaryote and must have belonged to kingdom Monera.

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