Single-celled protists in the guts of animals thrive without the ‘powerhouse of the cell’
Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals to fungi, can’t survive without mitochondria – the ’powerhouses of the cell’, which generate chemical energy using oxygen.
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