Endosymbiotic

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  • adj. Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • adj. That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.
  • Word Usage
    "What's interesting about this study is that it challenges a widely held hypothesis that Eucarya arose out of the fusion of a bacterium with an archaeon (also known as the endosymbiotic origin of the nucleus, not to be confused with the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts)."