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Explainer: what are mitochondria and how did we come to have them?

  • Written by Steven Zuryn, Group Leader, The University of Queensland
imageMitochondria live inside our cells but have a different genome. Here's why. from www.shutterstock.com.au

We’ve probably all heard of mitochondria, and we may even remember learning in school that they are the “powerhouses of the cell” – but what does that actually mean, and how did they evolve? To answer this question, we...

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