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o It provides insight into the now well understood interdependence in food chains and webs
o It proves that different prokaryotic organisms mated to produce eukaryotic organisms
o It explains how organelles and eventually eukaryotic cells could have arisen
o It shows that the first prokaryotic organisms lived in large communities