Question

while serving as a visiting professor on the planet freedonia, with infinite resources available to you, you decide to try implanting mitochondria into alien bacterial cells that can perform only glycolysis. assuming your experiment is successful, what result would you predict? answer: an increase in atp yield per glucose molecule; no change; a decrease in oxygen consumption by the bacteria; no change in oxygen consumption by the bacteria; i dont know yet

Explanation:

Bacterial cells that can only perform glycolysis produce a small amount of ATP. Mitochondria are the power - houses of the cell and are involved in aerobic respiration which produces more ATP. Implanting mitochondria into these cells would enable them to perform aerobic respiration steps (like the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation), increasing the ATP yield per glucose molecule. Also, aerobic respiration consumes oxygen, but before the mitochondria were implanted, the cells were not using oxygen for energy production (since they only did glycolysis), so oxygen consumption would increase.

Answer:

An increase in ATP yield per glucose molecule