DescriptionDIAGRAM JEON EXPERIMENT- Endosymbiotic Theory Evidence.svg
English: In 1966 Microbiologist Kwang Jeon conducted an experiment with amoebae communities providing real-life evidence for the endosymbiotic theory.
The single-celled amoebae community was infected by a bacterial infection of x-bacteria.
The x-bacteria caused many of the amoebae to become sick and die. Very few of the amoebae survived the epidemic.
Amoebae surviving the epidemic have x-bacteria living inside their cytoplasm.
Antibiotics were used to kill the x-bacteria inside the remaining amoebae causing the host amoeba to die as well because the amoebae had become dependant on the x-bacteria to survive.
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