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see the joke is, in the USA, if you were taught in public schools, you were told the “mitochondria is the power house of the cell” as an analogy. you were told this many times, on repetition
At my school, they showed a video about all the different parts of the cell where each part was a character with a different “job” and looking back it was pretty racist. I specifically remember that the Lysosome was a garbage man with a Mexican accent. Very cool science video for children… very cool 🫤
Also outside the USA
I don’t know if I simply didn’t get that in biology, or if I was just bad at biology (I passed with a D; though most of that was because I didn’t want to go to FFA meetings that were a requirement of the class). I only know the phrase because of memes.
It varies. I didn’t get the phrase parroted at me until in college, when the professor was making fun of the phrase. I bet it was some slide that was created by a teaching board or textbook maker, and just copied ad nauseam.
I learned about it from Parasite Eve.
Cooling towers
The coolest kind of towers
Sir, a second plane hit the cooling towers.
He looks exactly like a Duracell battery.
From Duracell to Powerhouseofthecell.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
I said!
Wouldnt adenosine triphosphate be the real energy and mitochondria just stealing credit for the work of its children?
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.
What happens when nano plastics overwhelm them though? :/
Hahah negentropy goes brrrr
