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Can you comment on the functions of the mitochondria and the energy cycle in aquatic bacteria?

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Well, mitochondria are these very complex organelles inside cells that are playing a

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key role in generating energy for life to be possible.

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They generate the energy that the cell uses to carry out its operations.

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Evolutionary biologists argue that these mitochondria emerge through an evolutionary process where

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a primordial cell engulfed a bacterium and that bacterium evolved into a mitochondria.

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The problem is that scenario, though it's a cornerstone idea in evolutionary theory, has

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some very significant problems.

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One of the most significant problems has to do with the process in which mitochondria are

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produced inside the cell.

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It is such an elaborate process that there's no way to envision how evolution could have

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taken a bacteria, converted it into mitochondria that would then be fully integrated into

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the cell's biochemical processes.

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It's impossible.

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It's very hard to imagine how evolution could have produced something like mitochondria.

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Yes.