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Mitochondria

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Science Literacy project in my homeschool.

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Mitochondria

Gamal Hussein
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What are they?

Cell parts
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Where are they?

...inside all your cells!
Photo by National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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What do they do?

Turn sugar into the type of energy a cell uses
Photo by Pablo Daniel Zamora
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Why are they important?

Powerhouse of the cell!
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Discovery

Who and When
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Long road...

  • 1857 "granules" seen by Albert von Kolliker
  • 1886 "bioblasts" ID'd with a dye technique by Richard Altman
  • 1898 given name mitochondria by Carl Benda
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  • 1912 Otto HeinrichWarburg connected oxygen use with them
  • 1923 David Keilin showed some of their proteins changed in energy-making-process
  • 1978 Peter Mitchell won Nobel Prize for his theory of how they work
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Where did they come from?

endosymbiosis
Photo by Beaty Biodiversity Museum
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When did they enter cells?

Scientists say...1.45 billion years ago
Photo by KaylaKandzorra
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Only Allah really knows

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Now for some funnies...

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(Mitochondria are only inherited from the mother)

Margaret