Also outside the USA
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blackberry@midwest.social 19 hours ago
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
fossphi@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
One of my profs described the nucleus as the “power house of cell operation”. You could just about measure the speed of sound by tracking the wave of students’ faces transitioning to pure confusion.
Some chaotic evil shit right there. That mofo knew exactly what he was doing.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
In a round about way isnt it accurate though? Biological potential energy that gets created/saved/processed in the mitochondria is eventually turned to power the moment the cell uses that potential energy for work.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
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).
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
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.
delirium@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I learned about it from Parasite Eve.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 19 hours ago
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 🫤