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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wouldnt adenosine triphosphate be the real energy and mitochondria just stealing credit for the work of its children?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, ATP would be more like the batteries, yeah. The mitochondria would be the whole power plant, and the little spinny generators would be the big spinny generators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Sort of?

ATP basically packages the energy, like wires, or the battery.

But the power-house/generator that makes them would be the mitochondria under most circumstances, since one of the main mechanisms to do that lies within the mitochondria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

mitochondria is called a parasite for a reason...