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The cells of diplomonads and parabasalids have modified mitochondria.
Diplomondas are small zooflagellates that inhabit the digestive systems of various animals, including termites, rats, and humans. Diplomonads do not posses true mitochondria, and thus they cannot perform respiration and instead must obtain their energy from fermentative processes. Parabasalids on the other hand also lack true mitochondria and instead contain small hydrogenosomes which apparently developed from reduced mitochondria.
Diplomondas are small zooflagellates that inhabit the digestive systems of various animals, including termites, rats, and humans. Diplomonads do not posses true mitochondria, and thus they cannot perform respiration and instead must obtain their energy from fermentative processes. Parabasalids on the other hand also lack true mitochondria and instead contain small hydrogenosomes which apparently developed from reduced mitochondria.
The cells of diplomonads and parabasalids have modified mitochondria. The diplomonads are a group of flagellates, most of which are parasitic. Parabasalids are characterized by a semi-functional mitochondria referred to as a hydrogenosome; they are comprised of parasitic protists, such as Trichomonas vaginalis.
