An ancient archaic cell engulfed a cyanobacterium and allowe…
An ancient archaic cell engulfed a cyanobacterium and allowed it to form a mutualistic relationship, because the cyanobacterium produced sugars that were usable by the archaic cell. The descendants of this archaic cell also inherited the cyanobacterial descendants of that first mutualistic cell, and thus were the first chloroplasts generated. This story describes a history of evolution which characterizes the ….