Peter Mitchell received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his revolutionary hypothesis of oxidative phosphorylation, which is called the _______ hypothesis.
A) electron transport
B) substrate-level phosphorylation
C) endosymbiotic
D) chemiosmotic

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Peter Mitchell's hypothesis proposed that the energy for ATP synthesis is generated by a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane, and this process is called chemiosmotic phosphorylation.

Peter Mitchell Received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for His