Question

1. Normally for an organism to increase its metabolic rate it must.

a.) maintain a higher concentration of H+ (protons) in the cytoplasm of it cells then in its mitochondria.

b.) pump more glucose into the mitochondria

c.) pump more glucose out of the mitochondria

d.) maintain a lower concentration of CO2 between the mitochondrial membranes

e.) pump H+ (protons) across the inner mitochondrial membrane at a faster rate

Answer 1

to increase its metabolic rate it must pump protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane at a faster rate .

Mitochondria play central  role in metabolism ,as on oxidation of food free energy is derived which transformed in ATP ,energy currency of cell inside mitochondria.