How to Use mitochondrion in a Sentence

mitochondrion

noun

• This is not the first time researchers have found creatures that have ditched their mitochondria.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• But the sperm’s mitochondria don’t enter the egg, so the new baby cell only gets the mom’s mitochondrial DNA.
  — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 24 July 2018
• When mitochondria fail, cells can be injured or die, causing organ systems to shut down.
  — Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2017
• Whether the sperm cell will reach and penetrate the egg depends upon its own supply of ATP, generated in those mitochondria so thickly clustered in the neck of the cell.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• The proportion of diseased mitochondria to healthy ones causes the diseases to vary in severity.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• The number of mitochondria in their cells increased, which improved the cells’ energy output.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2007
• Altmann might have been wrong to think that mitochondria were independent life forms.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• The donor, who does not have mitochondrial disease, will pass on her healthy mitochondria.
  — Madhumita Murgia, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2016
• Yet mitochondria never gave up their own form of heredity.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• Small animals, such as mice, have more active mitochondria in their bodies, working at a faster pace to produce energy and heat.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2017
• In many species, including humans, mitochondria have their own DNA.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• Mitochondria are organelles that contain their own DNA.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
• After elongating in response to the nutrient deficiency, the mitochondria lose their cristae (the little folds on their inside) and ball up.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2019
• But the researchers think that the absence of a functioning mitochondrion might be linked to the peculiar environment where the parasite lives — fish muscle.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Compared to sugar, fat is burned more efficiently by the energy-producing component of the cell known as the mitochondria.
  — Dorothy Kieffer, sacbee.com, 29 May 2017
• In L’Engle’s world, even something as microscopic as a mitochondrion can have cosmic significance, and a child can save the universe.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• For decades, researchers have known that mitochondria are derived from bacteria that became internal symbionts of archaeal cells, but details of how that happened have been sketchy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• The mitochondria were damaged — and nothing Dr. McCully tried revived them.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The study propelled Chandel, then at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues to examine whether mitochondria could release other signals as well.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019
• The mitochondria are the remains of what were once free-living bacteria, incorporated inside the cell and adapted for the production of the chemical energy source ATP.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
• Stressed cells release ATP and other molecules made by mitochondria into the extracellular space through channels in the cell membrane.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• This is the first eukaryote — organisms, like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• Both the nucleus and the mitochondrion reflect a remarkable merger that took place early in eukaryotic life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
• Eventually, mitochondria — and the cells they power — stop working, with devastating effects especially on cells of the muscles and brain.
  — Sharon Begley, Fox News, 17 July 2017
• Most human genes are on chromosomes, but a tiny number are in mitochondria, little power factories in human cells that for reasons of evolutionary history have their own loops of DNA.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Children inherit mitochondria only from their mothers; replacing faulty mitochondria in an egg or embryo with normal ones from a donor can result in healthy babies.
  — Sandy Ong, Science | AAAS, 6 June 2018
• The cell assembles the protein complexes that help mitochondria produce ATP with building blocks from both mitochondrial and nuclear genes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
• This sort of activity is supported by a different means of ATP production -- one that does not heavily rely on mitochondria or require oxygen.
  — Joshua Selsby, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• Cells are filled with mitochondria, little engines that fuel cell activity.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2017
• The mitochondria are like factories that manufacture ATP.
  — Joshua Selsby, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019

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