1. PARTS-
✓ DOUBLE MEMBRANE
(INTERNAL AND OUTER)
✓ INTERMEMBRANE SPACE
✓ OXYSOMES
✓ ATP SYNTHASE
✓ MATRIX
✓ CRISTAE
✓ 70 S RIBOSOMES
✓ NOT PRESENT IN HUMAN
RBC
✓ SINGULAR:
MITOCHONDRION
✓ DISCOVERED BY ALBERT
VON KÖLLIKER IN 1857
✓ TERM MITOCHONDRION
WAS COINED BY CARL
BENDA IN 1898.
✓ OCCUR IN EUKARYOTIC
CELL
✓ POWERHOUSE OF THE
CELL
➢ SIZE: 0.5 TO 1.MICROMETERS IN DIAMETER
➢ CONTAIN ITS OWN DNA AND RIBOSOME
➢ CAN REPLICATE INDEPENDENTLY
ROLE:
➢ ENERGY PRODUCTION
➢ SITE FOR ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN
➢ MAINTAIN CA++ CONC.
➢ REGULATES THE METABOLIC ACTIVITY OF THE CELL
➢ INVOLVES IN CELL SIGNALLING ETC.
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