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Why can a monocercomonide survive without a mitochondria?

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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.

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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

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