In the section "Investigating Life: Plants' Alternative Lifestyles Yield Hot Sex",Philodendron flowers pass electrons through a mitochondrial electron transport chain to generate heat.What step is bypassed in generating heat?

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In the process of generating heat, the formation of a proton gradient is bypassed. This is because the energy from electron transfer is used directly to produce heat instead of being used to pump protons across the membrane to create a gradient for ATP synthesis.

In the Section "Investigating Life: Plants' Alternative Lifestyles Yield Hot