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Q.Identify the cell structure or organelle from the description below: Manufactures ATP in animal and plant cells.

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Step 1. ATP synthesis through aerobic respiration takes place chiefly in the mitochondrion, using the electron-carrier and oxysome (ATP synthase) machinery mounted on its folded inner membrane (cristae).

Step 2. Unlike chloroplasts, which are found only in plant/algal cells and make sugar via photosynthesis, mitochondria are present in essentially all eukaryotic cells that respire aerobically -- both animal and plant cells alike (they are notably abse …

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