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An organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy
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mitochondrion
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy [syn: chondriosome ] [also: mitochondria (pl)]
Wikipedia
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The mitochondrion (plural mitochondria ) is a double membrane -bound organelle found in all eukaryotic organisms, although some cells in some organisms may lack them (e.g. Red blood cells ). A number of organisms have reduced or transformed their mitochondria ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
singular of mitochondria .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context cytology English) A spherical or ovoid organelle found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, contains genetic material separate from that of the host; it is responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy in the form of ATP.
Usage examples of mitochondrion.
Virtually all the food and oxygen you take into your body are delivered, after processing, to the mitochondria, where they are converted into a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
Actually, the suggestion that chloroplasts and mitochondria might be endosymbionts was made as long ago as 1885, but one might expect, nevertheless, that confirmation of the suggestion would have sent the investigators out into the streets, hallooing.
Close up, the machinery looked almost organic -- it had that evolved complexity, unplanned and serendipitous, that you can see in electron micrographs of cells and in flowcharts of mitochondria.
The ribosomes inside the mitochondria are similar to bacterial ribosomes, and different from animal ribosomes.
At thirty-one he won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on genetically modified excitotoxins in neural mitochondria.
Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.
Still, since there were thousands of mitochondria in each cell, and only one nucleus, it was much easier to recover mitochondrial rather than nuclear DNA from ancient specimens.
Virtually all the food and oxygen you take into your body are delivered, after processing, to the mitochondria, where they are converted into a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
Close up, the machinery looked almost organic -- it had that evolved complexity, unplanned and serendipitous, that you can see in electron micrographs of cells and in flowcharts of mitochondria.
Show us your mitochondria, that we may sculpt our asteroid belt to encode its patterns.
She was especially intrigued by the paper on the theory of biomimetic systems, the idea of constructing microscopic machines by imitating already existing biological models, such as mitochondria and viruses.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA, which replicates and propagates itself entirely independently of the main DNA in the chromosomes of the nucleus.
Maybe those ciliated protozoa that had a variant genetic code were descended from some cilia who had been in symbiosis with other cells in the past, developing genetic-code variations for the same safety-net reasons mitochondria had but, unlike the cilia we still retained, had subsequently broken off the symbiosis and returned to stand-alone life.
She was leaning over the scanning probe microscope, which showed an image of a cell mitochondrion and the two conformational states of its inner membrane.
Her heart beat in frightened counterpoint to the rhythm of the mitochondrion.