espybounce asked: Mitochondria may be the powerhouse of the cell, but I resent the fact that people don't care about its other functions! The mitochondrion isn't some goddess that dropped down from the sky to generate ATP! It's got a three dimensional personality and people keep type-casting it! Without mitochondria people would die of azotaemia, probably!

adventuresinchemistry:

yeah! less typecasting and more three dimensional character development for the mitochondria! 

Tags: science with moran science! this offends my scientific sensibilities mitochondria is like probably a bacterium that some cell glomped and then it just sort of proved useful so instead of lysing the bacterium and pillaging it for resources they got symbiotic until the mitochondria was just like 'yes this is my home now' and never left it's not even that the mitochondria started life as a squatter it's more like if you went out and mugged a random dude and dragged him back to your apartment and just left him tied up on the floor until he picked the knot apart and then instead of getting violent he just made you dinner with the groceries you bought (glucose = raw ingredients/groceries) (ATP = actual food/dinner) flash forward a few years you two have always been living together and your arrangement remains exactly the same with the added bonus that you protect your stockholm-syndrome chef from outside attacks yeah that's basically the mitochondria with the rest of the cell