Mitochondria Are Alive
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Mitochondria Are Alive
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#2I wonder what mitochondria dream about. Do they have elections? Politics? Their own understanding of the universe, that somehow ends on the skin surface?
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#4As a layman I'm kind of baffled by the enduring pop-sci interest in mitochondria.
To me the far more interesting organelle is the ribosome. This elegant self-replicating machine that is highly conserved across lifeforms is fascinating and much closer to the origin of life than mitochondria.
How did ribosomes evolve? Are the ribosomes that we see in modern organisms the first design that did evolve? Why are they highly conserved?
Are ribosomes alive as well?
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#5I expect such lively news to make this comment section the powerhouse of the front page. :^)
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#6I'm sure there's a fantastic midi-chlorian joke here.
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#7the mitochondria are alive, and they're doing just fine
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#8this is the first ive heard of mitochondria replicating separately and distinctly from the host cell, how fascinating!
Are we saying that mitochondria have their own life cycle inside of a cell? living/dying/replicating in the span of the "life" of a single host cell? When a host cell reproduces, how does the mitochondria get produced in the new cell to get things started?
Cant wait to research this later.
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#9As a layman I'm kind of baffled by the enduring pop-sci interest in mitochondria. To me the far more interesting organelle is the ribosome. This elegant self-replicating machine that is highly conserved across lifeforms is fascinating and much closer to the origin of life than mitochondria. How did ribosomes evolve? Are the ribosomes that we see in modern organisms the first design that did evolve? Why are they highl…
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#10I expect such lively news to make this comment section the powerhouse of the front page. :^)
It's funny that this phrase has had such staying strength, while the key word in it, "powerhouse," has fallen out of fashion. The more modern American English way to phrase it would be "the power plant of the cell."