Why Can Monocercomonoides Survive Without Mitochondria?
Monocercomonoides May Not Need Mitochondria Because of Where It Lives—in the Intestines of Chinchilla Hosts, Which It Doesn't Appear to Harm. Nutrients Are...
Monocercomonoides may not need mitochondria because of where it lives—in the intestines of chinchilla hosts, which it doesn't appear to harm. Nutrients are abundant there, but oxygen, which mitochondria require to produce energy, is scarce.
Why can this organism survive without mitochondria?
Without mitochondria (singular, mitochondrion), higher animals would likely not exist because their cells would only be able to obtain energy from anaerobic respiration (in the absence of oxygen), a process much less efficient than aerobic respiration.
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Why can eukaryotes survive without mitochondria?
Eukaryotes that use oxygen to optimize their energy production could not survive if their mitochondria were taken away. ... Since they have no mitochondria to complete aerobic respiration, all amitochondriate eukaryotes are anaerobic. Intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia, for example, is anaerobic and has no mitochondria.
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