He looks exactly like a Duracell battery.
Poooweeeer!!!
Submitted 2 months ago by Lisk91@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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dumbass@leminal.space 2 months ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I always wonder how many people think the cooling towers are “chimneys” blowing “smoke”.
Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
From Duracell to Powerhouseofthecell.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I said!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
Wouldnt adenosine triphosphate be the real energy and mitochondria just stealing credit for the work of its children?
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 months 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.
T156@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sort of?
ATP basically packages the energy, like wires, or the battery.
But the powerhouse/generator that makes them would be the mitochondria under most circumstances, since one of the main mechanisms to do that lies within the mitochondria.
Litebit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mitochondria is called a parasite for a reason…
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What happens when nano plastics overwhelm them though? :/
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 months ago
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Hahah negentropy goes brrrr
blackberry@midwest.social 2 months 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
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 2 months 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 🫤
fossphi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Also outside the USA
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As they say, out with the old, in with the nucleus.
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Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
blackberry@midwest.social 2 months ago
lucky!
delirium@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I learned about it from Parasite Eve.