Question

Standard NCES.7.L.1.2- An athlete is running a race. The athlete’s body needs energy. Which type of organelle in the athlete’s cells supplies the energy for cellular function?

Group of answer choices

Golgi apparatus

mitochondrion

ribosome

nucleus

Answer 1

Mitochondrion

Step-by-step explanation:

Mitochondria are the cell organelles (mitochondrion, singular) that generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions and so they are the cell organelles in the athlete’s cells that supply the energy for cellular function.