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Breakdown of pyruvate using oxygen takes place in (a) Golgi bodies (b) chloroplast (c) mitochondria (d) nucleus |
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Answer» (c) In cell biology, a mitochondrion is a membraneenclosed organelle, found in most eukaryotic cells. Mitochondria are "cellular power plants," because they generate most of the cell's supply of ATP, used as a source of chemical energy. Each pyruvate molecule produced by glycolysis is actively transported across the inner mitochondrial membrane, and into the matrix where it is oxidized and combined with coenzyme A to form CO2, acetyl- CoA and NADH. |
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