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Lynn Margulis is born March 5th 1938 in Chicago, Illinois
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at the age of only 14 she entered college "because she wanted to go and they let me in.".
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The theory maintains that ancestors of eukaryotic cells were symbiotic consortiums of prokaryote cells with at least one and possibly more species (endosymbionts) involved.
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she argued that eukaryotic cells originated as communities of interacting entities
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she studied the structure of cells
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in 1981, Margulis published Symbiosis in Cell Evolution. it told how new mitochondria and plastids are formed only through a process similar to binary fission.
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The endosymbiotic theory concerns the mitochondria, plastids and possibly other organelles of eukaryotic cells.
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in 1999 she is awarded with the William Procter prize for scientific achievement. It is awarded to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research
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She helps discover secondary symbiosis. Secondary symbiosis occurs when the product of primary endosymbiosis is itself engulfed and retained by another free living eukaryote
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Lynn Margulis is currently alive today
