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The mitochondria is the site of most of cellular respiration, same glycolysis. Through the Kreb's cycle and oxidative phosphorilation the mitochondria produce the energy currency of the cell; ATP. The endosymbiotic theory explains the presence of the mitochondria as a fusing or ingesting of a type of aerobic bacteria many eons ago.

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