A child is born with a rare disease in which mitochondria are missing from skeletal muscle cells. However, the muscles still function. Physicians find that

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The high levels of lactate in the muscles indicate a reliance on anaerobic respiration, which suggests that the muscle cells cannot generate sufficient energy through aerobic respiration due to the missing mitochondria.

A Child Is Born with a Rare Disease in Which