Red algae, brown algae, golden algae, and stramenopiles became photosynthetic through secondary or tertiary endosymbiotic events, where they endosymbiosed cells that had already endosymbiosed a cyanobacterium.

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  5.9.1: Kingdom Plantae - Evolution and Phylogeny

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• photosynthesis concept
• cyanobacteria concept