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>>2547774

Plants need oxygen to survive because of these guys. Pic related. You know these guys, right?
They kind of do the whole "aerobic respiration thing" which allows then to use oxygen as a final electron acceptor in the krebs cycle. Without it you have a net gain of 2 ATP instead of 36-38. Kind of required for an energetically active cell.
Plants fall under the category of organisms composed of cells which require a lot of energy.

Yes they generate their own oxygen.
They also have no way of storing it and release a lot of it as a waste gas.
Which they need to retake during those hours when there's no sun around... what's that time called again... hmm.. it'll come back to me.
Night. Yea that's the one.

Hey Faggots,

My name is mitochondira, and I'm inside every single one of you. All of you are shitty, freeloading, oxygen dependant life forms who spend every second of their day relying on my shit-product to live. You are everything useless in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever had a citric acid cycle? I mean, I guess it's fun eating my offspring and freeloading because of your own inability to breathe on your own, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than becoming anaerobic bacteria.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I'm preserved almost exactly like I was when I first evolved, and create over 32 ATP molecules from a single sugar molecule. What processes do you synthesize, other than making my outer matrix membrane proteins for me? There's hundreds of me in a single cell, and have a banging triple membrane (Only proteins with the right signal recognition sequence can get through it; Shit is SO cash). You are all faggots who should just undergo apoptosis. Thanks for listening.

Pic Related: It's me, chilling inside you.

Hey Faggots,

My name is mitochondira, and I'm inside every single one of you. All of you are shitty, freeloading, oxygen dependant life forms who spend every second of their day relying on my shit-product to live. You are everything useless in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever had a cirtic acid cycle? I mean, I guess it's fun eating my offspring and freeloading because of your own inability to breathe on your own, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than becoming anaerobic bacteria.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I'm preserved almost exactly like I was when I first evolved, and create over 32 ATP molecules from a single sugar molecule. What processes do you synthesize, other than making my out outer matrix membrane proteins for me? There's hundreds of me in a single cell, and have a banging triple membrane (Only proteins with the right signal recognition sequence can get through it; Shit is SO cash). You are all faggots who should just under apoptosis. Thanks for listening.

Pic Related: It's me, chilling inside you.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS!

>>1385657
I have a question.
>Mitochondrial DNA
>As in prokaryotes, there is a very high proportion of coding DNA and an absence of repeats. Mitochondrial genes are transcribed as multigenic transcripts...
>In general, mitochondrial DNA lacks introns...
(copy-pasted from wikipedia; yeah, I know, I'm a lazy fuck).
My question is:
Why is mitochondria so disinclined to mutations considering these facts?

Do you realize the mitochondrial count necessary for such a feat? He'd have to hibernate for six months before attempting this. And even then, if the conditions aren't absolutely PERFECT, he'd die.