Explanation:
They differ when they have the same chemical composition but the way in which they are arranged or put together is different.
The organelle that could b malfunctioning is the mitochondria, which packages proteins and without protein for cells, the outcome is cell lysis, or destruction.
Gause's Competitive Exclusion Principle
The 'competitive exclusion principle' (CEP) states that two species with identical niches cannot coexist indefinitely. ... Gause helped propel ecology by his approach of experimentally testing mathematical models, and his unifying the concept of the niche with resource competition.