• RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

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

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      15 hours 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.

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      15 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.