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notdevin
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The total surface area of mitochondria in your cells is equivalent to about 14,000 meters^2 or 4 football fields…🤯
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the craziest thing I ever learned about mitochondria is that they were simply bacteria once 🫢
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Totally a wild fact, agreed! They even have their own genome separate from ours for the exact same reason that Wall Street traders want their servers as close to the trading floor as possible
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When I learned this, I was like holy shit, this alien-like thing has just been living in some symbiotic relationship within our species for millions of years
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