• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    no, go back to biology!

    did you know that mitochondria has is own distinct DNA code, not only it’s own DNA but it uses a different codon code than nuclear DNA. and that us has only a couple dozen genes, most of those are tRNA for it’s own DNA code?

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      6 days ago

      oh yeah, aren’t mitochondria kind of their own thing that just happened to end up inside other organisms?

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        6 days ago

        yes, they were at some point free living bacteria, that was engulfed by another cell, and instead of being digested, they become symbiotic.

        we are symbiotes.

        another fun trivia, they discovered a parasite that infects mitochoria of ticks ovums, and called them “Midichloria mitochondrii” after star wars midichlorians.