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When and how might the eukaryotic cell have arisen?

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About 2.1 billion years ago the eukaryotic cell has originated from the archaea about, during the Precambrian time. The endosymbiotic hypothesis can explain the development of eukaryotic cells from archaea. According to this hypothesis, one organism is taken inside the other organism and it stays in it as an organelle.

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