The hydrogenosome is a crucial organelle for some organisms that inhabit oxygen-poor environments, protists such as some free-living ciliates, unicellular parasites, termite flagellates and rumen fungi and rumen ciliates (Figs. 22.3 and 22.7). These organisms lack conventional mitochondria (Figs. 22.1 and 22.2).
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The annual gift tax exclusion, the amount you can give to any individual each year without it being considered a taxable gift, is indexed for inflation, and the Internal Revenue Service has announced that in 2009 the amount will increase to $13,000 from the current $12,000.