This (arguably unhelpful) phrase seems to be taught across schools all over the world. What are some other phrases like this that are common ?
Okay, as a biologist it really upsets me how that phrase is written off. I did an impromptu half hour lecture for my wife about how significant “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” is,
The mitochondria is what ties everything on this planet together, it’s the one thing that ties all life together, it is the exact same mechanism in plants as it is in animals, it takes the same ingredients and does the same function, and comes from the same origin.
There is no chain in our DNA that codes for the mitochondria, it exists outside of our DNA, it has no relationship with our DNA, it only fuels reading DNA and it’s decoding and replication, but it isn’t included in our genetics. It replicates itself, it exists as a separate entity, and it acts as the functioning unit for all energy within the cell.
It would be like if when a child was born their lungs were provided by an outside source and had the same genetic material as everyone else’s lungs. Oh and puppy lungs, and crab lungs, and avocado lungs, and grass lungs, every single living thing on this plant has the same lung genetic material. And it has no clue that it serves this function, all it knows is ADP goes in, ATP goes out, and ATP is energy that fuels all function of all life.
And it comes from the friggin mitochondria.
Please be impressed with that little hitch hiker, it is the powerhouse that powers your neurons, grows the vegetables you eat, and makes life happen on earth.
How will we know something extraterrestrial comes our way? They’ll have their own mitochondria, because something needs to power their cells, and it won’t be the same as ours.
Writing off the mitochondria from biology is like writing off the exchange of goods in economics, or doing physics without the concept of mass, or art without feeling. There is nothing more basic, more fundamentally important to biology than the existence of the mitochondria, and it’s role as the powerhouse of the cell.
MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL. That you know that makes me happy.
This is prokaryote erasure.
How will we know something extraterrestrial comes our way? They’ll have their own mitochondria, because something needs to power their cells, and it won’t be the same as ours.
New writing prompt, aliens show up and they are wildly different from us but they and all life on their planet also use the exact same mitochondria as us.
My mitochondria are retarded, do you have any advice? I have the mitochondrial dna sequenced in cram format if that’s useful. Low heteroplasmy, very low mitochondria number per cell (0th percentile), and poor energy production.
Try High Intensity Interval Training. Really intensive short workouts of a few minutes seem to regenerate mitochondria.
Do you have a source I can follow
There are a number of articles and these are a couple.
Very interesting, wonder how this compares to just exercising
From what I’ve read it is claimed to regenerate mitochondria, be quite quick to do so you save time but other forms of exercise achieve different results like burning fat, cardio etc.
Wonder if you need good mitochondria to put on fat? I can only put on muscle
Did your lecture get you laid?
Are you kidding, I’m married.
that phrase is to biology as “donde esta la biblioteca” is to spanish
Mitochondria is plural. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
What’s the singular, then?
Mitochondrion
Mitochondreez nutz
‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
Or when sounding like “A” as in neighbor and weigh
And on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May
And you always be wrong, no matter what you say.
This is honestly one of my favorite ones, and legit runs through my head whenever I can’t remember the spelling of a word
yes, Bryan, we all call that “desk”
Like in “science”.
While not unhelpful, stop-drop-and-roll and quicksand don’t come up as often as we thought back then
I was always worried about proper handling of nitroglycerin. Talking to my friends it seems that wasn’t as common as quicksand or even thinking you’d need to tell gold apart from fool’s gold (pyrite). Games like Crash Bandicoot, shows like Dexter’s Lab, and a general interest in science may have meant I heard more about it as a kid.
I believe most nations have a version of “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” that is taught in early education.
I’ve only heard this phrase from Americans, so I think “all over the world” is a stretch
Australian here, they taught us this meme in school.
Its taught in India as well, (and is also a meme here)
Can confirm in south india
It’s a meme in the netherlands as well.
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To the tune of “Pop Goes The Weasel”:
x equals negative b /
plus or minus the square root /
of b squared minus 4 ac /
all over 2a!I cannot believe that stupid fucking song is still in my head, but good God damn it worked. It’s there for all 0 times I’ll need the quadratic equation in my daily life.
It was to to the tune of Frère Jacques when I learned it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frère_Jacques
Negative b, negative b
Plus or minus square root, plus or minus square root
B squared minus 4 AC, b squared minus 4 AC
Over 2A, over 2AFinding the name of the original song was a pain. I’d never seen it written as an adult and thought it said “do re mi” so every search result kept telling me it was from the sound of music.
I can’t even visualise what you are saying
I don’t hear it either, though.
It’s “its”, not “it’s”, unless you mean “it is”, in which case it is “it’s”.
- Mr Francis, high school English
Do you have any evidence your phrase is used all over the world? I never learnt it.
I think this phrase was made into a meme by an American children’s TV show called Bill Nye the Science Guy; it’s said during the intro sequence.
Ohhhhhh I had never put two and two together on that
Apparently the phrase dates from a biology paper published in 1957. I think I’ve been Mandela Effected; I have a memory of several voices coming in and saying science phrases, in between “Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!” but having just rewatched the intro sequence on Youtube this only happens once and the phrase it says is “Intertia is a property of matter.”
I learned it in German in Germany. Do we have evidence from the francophone world? Latam? China?
Checking in from NZ, sounds familiar to me
Definitely did it in Australia.
What class? What year?
Biology class circa 2001-2003
my very eager mother just served us nine
rip pizzas
Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no plate.