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What is "mitochondria"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mitochondria

1901, from German, coined 1898 by microbiologist Carl Benda (1857-1933), from Greek mitos "thread" (see mitre) + khondrion "little granule," diminutive of khondros "granule, lump of salt" (see grind (v.)).

Wiktionary
mitochondria

n. (plural of mitochondrion English)

WordNet
mitochondrion

  1. n. an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy [syn: chondriosome]

  2. [also: mitochondria (pl)]

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Mitochondria (song)

"Mitochondria" is Kenichi Suzumura's third single, released on February 4, 2009. It came with a disc with the PV of the title track "Mitochondria" and peaked at #20 on the Oricon charts

Usage examples of "mitochondria".

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.

Show us your mitochondria, that we may sculpt our asteroid belt to encode its patterns.