Why does the malaria cell have a chloroplast?

lothruin

For the same reason that human cellular mitochondria has its own separate DNA. And that reason: We don't know, but have made some guesses at ancient symbiotic relationships between cellular organisms evolving into a codependant and permanent state. Aug 06 03, 10:10 PM

_princess_007

Malaria are protists. Protists have chloroplasts which were derived from photosynthetic cyanobacteria living within their cells. http://home.comcast.net/~john.kimball1/BiologyPages/P/Protists.html Nov 17 06, 4:18 AM

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