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You Discover a New Organism While on Vacation in Yellowstone

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You discover a new organism while on vacation in Yellowstone Park. You use a series of experiments to establish that it carries out aerobic respiration, but find that it has a unique ATP synthase that requires 16 protons per rotation. What does this tell you about the P/O ratio in this organism?


A) The new organism only makes ATP by substrate-level phosphorylation
B) The P/O ratio in the new organism is lower than your P/O ratio
C) The P/O ratio in the new organism is the same as your P/O ratio
D) The P/O ratio in the new organism is higher than your P/O ratio

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