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A symbiotic association in which one organism lives within another organism’s body or cells.
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- cellular endosymbiosis
- endosymbiotic origin
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The microbe’s endosymbiosis with its host altered both organisms.
The lecturer explained the endosymbiosis associated with mitochondrial origins.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural endosymbioses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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