Cellular respiration takes place primarily in organelles called mitochondria. some textbooks claim that "mitochondria make the energy needed for biological processes."

Actually, the mitochondria does not MAKE the energy, it just makes it usable to the cell! It is through cellular respiration that this can take place. 

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