Endosymbiotic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Endosymbiotic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
More Meanings
- That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.
Example Sentences
The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.
The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include methanogens, endosymbiontic, ectosymbiotic, endosmosmic, endoparasitic, exosymbiotic.
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