/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4413112]

Mitochondrion

Moar like MIGHTochondrion amirite?

(Pic related)

[Anonymous No.4413121]

>biology major attempts humor

[Anonymous No.4413122]

Bumpity Bump.

[Anonymous No.4413123]

>>4413112

>2012
>believing in mitochondria

[Anonymous No.4413129]

Mitochondria, while necessary to life, are also a source of problems for us. Their asinine "design" features are part of the reason that our bodies break down and age.

[Anonymous No.4413143]

>>4413129

>design

you can kindly GTFO

[Anonymous No.4413149]

Energy coming out the wazoo.

Makes me wonder why engineers havent explored the potential for these organelles to be a renewable source of energy.

They recycle their electron carriers and all you need is readily available sugar and oxygen as a variable cost.

Mitochondria can easily be harvested from living matter via centrifugation, FADH2 and NADH can readily be synthesized.

Whatchoo waitin for mathymathycal faggets?

[Anonymous No.4413157]

Dat primary endosymbiont.

[Anonymous No.4413161]

>>4413149
That's because the only thing engineers do all day is sit on their FAT fucking towers and sneer at people all day. I MADE A TOASTER, WHERE IS MY RECONGNITIONS?

[Anonymous No.4413163]

can you inject extra mitochondria into someone to give them a boost of energy? or how about to help consume fat, and lose weight?

[Anonymous No.4413171]

>>4413161

> I MADE A TOASTER, WHERE IS MY RECONGNITIONS?

actually, engineers get the short end of the stick the majority of the time. modern geniuses go unrecognized while the corporations they work for take all the credit.

do you think the amazing advances in modern tech just think themselves up?

engineers are the guys in the background who make everything wonderful work, the unsung heroes of our generation.

[Anonymous No.4413187]

>>4413163
No. Mitochondria must inhabit eukaryotic cells. They cannot live on their own and they won't magically get from the blood-stream into cells where they can conduct metabolism.

[Anonymous No.4413191]

>>4413163

>can you inject extra mitochondria into someone to give them a boost of energy?

no, it dosnt work that way. there are a multitude of signalling molecules and supporting organelles that the mitochondria requires to function, and even if it does operate, ATP cannot be sent to where its needed via the endocrine system, you need the mitochondria to be exactly where any particular organ that needs it is. furthermore, any excess energy will just be converted into heat loss.

>or how about to help consume fat, and lose weight?

no, the energy still has to be utilized. if there is no demand for energy, your body will not signal the chemical pathways to undergo further glycolysis which sends the needed pyruvate into mitochondria to begin the link reactions and the krebs cycle.

you have more than enough mitochondria to operate your body at maximum capacity. your brain may be the exception.

[Anonymous No.4413245]

I want to genetically engineer my mitochondria to react RDX with itself for energy rather than the whole glucose / O2 thing.

I would then have no need of such things as breathing because I would literally be the bomb. Problem?

[Anonymous No.4413267]

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[Anonymous No.4413438]

>>4413245

Nigger, you best be trolling.

You dont want a mitochondrion fo that, you want Photosystem 2 and P700 chlorohpyl a for that.

PS 2 can be cyclic and will generate 1 ATP per cycle if you have it pass through the cytochrome complex.

[Anonymous No.4413440]

>>4413267

>mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell
>are the powerhouse

all those times and you couldnt even get it right once

[Anonymous No.4413448]

>>4413440
not that guy but mitochondria is the plural so "are" is correct

singular mitochondrion

if you're going to be a dickhead grammar nazi, at least do it right.

[Anonymous No.4413451]

>>4413448

>are the powerhouse

>ARE the POWERHOUSE

Time to repeat grade school it seems?

[Anonymous No.4413456]

>>4413448

"A mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell."

"Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell."

all those times and even a second chance to correct yourself and you still couldnt get it right

[Anonymous No.4413537]

>>4413451

are you seriously upset because he didnt say powerhouses instead of powerhouse? i mean, i'm all for correct grammar but nitpicking over this is beyond retarded.

[Anonymous No.4413546]

>>4413537

no, nitpicking on your grammar would be retarded, but a chance to expose >>4413451 for the idiot that he is was worth that 5 seconds it took to type it.

[Anonymous No.4413568]

Cells multiply by dividing. Hyuk hyuk.

[Anonymous No.4413584]

>>4413546
then i'm not sure what you're trying to say, multiple people arent sure what you're trying to say and this argument has stayed vague enough for long enough.

either its some important fact and you'll enlighten me and i'll learn something or its some sort of petty bullshit and in that case i dont really care. i suppose it could possibly also be somewhere in between these 2 options, but thats not really important.

explain why you devoted so much time to responding to 1 comment ITT and what specifically your problem with it is, please or lets just be done with this senseless cycle in which i'm trying to figure out what your specific complaint is and you dont elaborate.

[Anonymous No.4413588]

>>4413584

im afraid that you dont qualify to be counted as "multiple people"

>u mad

[Anonymous No.4413601]

>>4413588

the other person you were initially arguing with also counts as another person, hence multiple people.

please either explain specifically what your problem is or be done with it.

[Anonymous No.4413630]

>>4413129

>god, my mom SUCKS. she says she's going to kick me out of the house because I need to support myself. I mean, i'm 34 and all, but doesn't she LOVE ME? if she really did, she'd let me stay for free and make me hot pockets 5ever

This is why mitochondria break down.

[Anonymous No.4413638]

>>4413630

>mitochondria not supporting itself
>mitochondria containing its own DNA and synthesizing its own protein from its own ribosome organelles.
>mitochondria not working its ass off producing 32-34 ATP per Krebs Cycle

[Anonymous No.4413648]

>>4413630

Mitochondria only get catabolysed by lysosomes when they post a dissenting opinion of the Nucleus on facebook.

[Gilgamesh !!JNVkU2/omZB No.4413671]

This thread is terrible.

Also, mitochondria only code for 13 of their own proteins (out of about 600 total).