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Mitochondria is the power house of the cell (lemm.ee)

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This (arguably unhelpful) phrase seems to be taught across schools all over the world. What are some other phrases like this that are common ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could cells live without mitochondria?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Can you live without your lungs? Maybe stomach is a tiny bit more appropriate, I guess you could if you had something pumping nutrients into your body, and taking away the waste, but you'd be on life support for the rest of your days.

ATP, what the mitochondria is there to produce, is used for almost every action in the cell (not used in passive transport and some enzymatics, maybe other stuff, it's been 20 years since I studied cellular bio), and ADP is leftover that needs to be resynthesized into ATP. I guess life could've developed an alternative way to synthesize it, but the mitochondria is so good at it that it was never needed.