Assertion: mitochondrion | /r/HasProperty | descended
Facets:
value: from specialized bacteria
type: OTHER
value: from prokaryotes
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Mitochondria are able to reproduce asexually, and scientists think that they are descended from prokaryotes.
text: The endosymbiotic hypothesis for the origin of mitochondria (and chloroplasts) suggests that mitochondria are descended from specialized bacteria (probably purple nonsulfur bacteria) that somehow survived endocytosis by another species of prokaryote or some other cell type, and became incorporated into the cytoplasm.