You are now convinced that you know the cause of death for these victims and quickly report it back to the police as this is a very dangerous situation. After realizing that the electron transport chain was no longer functioning, you started to suspect poisoning and ran a blood test for various poisons that you knew affected the electron transport chain. The test of all seven patients came back positive for cyanide. Cyanide irreversibly binds to cytochrome c oxidase (CcOX) of the electron transport chain and prevents the transfer of electrons to oxygen, the final electron acceptor.In the presence of cyanide, what would happen to the proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane? a. it would increase b. it would decrease c. it would stay the same

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