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Comment by gus_massa

4 days ago

There are a few weird cases of prokaryotes that don't have mitocondrias. Apparently they had mitocondrias, but they steeled the interesting parts and get rid of them (over gazillions of years). From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamonad

> These flagellates are unusual in lacking aerobic mitochondria. Originally they were considered among the most primitive eukaryotes, diverging from the others before mitochondria appeared. However, they are now known to have lost aerobic mitochondria secondarily, and retain both organelles and nuclear genes derived ultimately from the mitochondrial endosymbiont genome. Mitochondrial relics include hydrogenosomes, which produce hydrogen (and make ATP), and small structures called mitosomes.