If you are an athlete and work out many exhausting hours a d

If you are an athlete and work out many exhausting hours a day will you have the same amount of mitochondria in your cells as someone who is a couch potato? Explain why (and what the change would be) or why not. (Think about the amount role of mitochondria in the cell.)

Solution

An athlete as an adaptation to suppky more amount of energy to body muscles would have more number of mitochondria in body cells especially in the skeleton muscle cells. Mitochondria being the power house of cells, generate energy for the cell. These mitochondria would generate energy more than normal so as to mert the energy demands of body cells.