Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 4CHI
Certain chemicals block ATP synthesis by allowing protons and other ions to “leak across membranes,” disrupting the charge and proton gradients established by electron flow through an ETC. Does this observation support the chemiosmosis hypothesis? Explain your reasoning.
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