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It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that “mitochondria” is plural, and the singular is “mitochondrion.” So, it’s either “the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” or “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell,” and neither feel right.
I feel like the leading “the” is what’s messing that up.
“Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” sounds fine to me.
*powerhouses might be better(it sounds better for me)
I refer to one piece of broccoli as a
broccolusbroccolo.Except its Italian, not Latin, so the singular is broccolo . If you want to use the Latin word,.it’s broccus
I feel like Broccus would be a badass name for a dog.
I have one die which gives one datum at a time.
Why have you done this to us?!
A grammatical error in a translation from a foreign galactic basic to English is what ruined the force for you? Lol. If we can believe in defying gravity, I think we can believe “The iceburgs is the ship’s fear.”
Bro. What lol.
Idk, just a dumb joke about star wars
I was with you until the last line, lol, had me scratching my head and wondering if I was okay
Weakness would have made more sense then fear, but that ship already sailed. If it’s going to Titanic I’m going to pretend I can’t change course now
I’m a big fan of saying weird shit and leaving it up, cheers fellow weirdo.
I constantly struggle with what’s proper and what sounds right when using Latin plural in English.
It’s mental how this is pretty much known worldwide, like drawing that S thing. The one similar to the Suzuki logo
As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I’m afraid to ask.
I was born in the 1970’s and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me
I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.
It’s not from any specific media reference, it’s just essentially what every child was taught, verbatim, in grade school.
Apparently as an Internet thing it only really took off in 2013 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mitochondria-is-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell
Huh, I figured it was Dexter’s Lab or some cartoon.
the meme originated from tumblr. the quote itself is older than color tv.
Well ‘meme’ is an older idea than image macros =p
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I think it’s just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it’s more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.
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The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations
…maternally via mitochondrial DNA
we are the self-preservation society.
The exact origin of the symbol (cool S) is unclear; however, it is generally considered to be an artifact of childlore, meaning that it is taught by children to children over the course of generations.
TIL
Cool S wiki
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It’s really amazing. The only (not really) downside is that certain episodes make me tear up.
You will also have to enslessly play the games they’re playing.
I haven’t actually been able to watch the special episode properly because my wife and daughters are too busy crying. I do love how stripe is kicked out of the bushes by Wendy
It is really nice to have a children’s TV show that doesn’t scream the title and characters’ names at us over and over, mainly to make sure we remember to buy merchandise
Take another moment to realize how shit Paw Patrol is.
- Not challenging, has clear cut good/bad dynamic. Bluey doesn’t have “bad guys”
- PP is fairly inclusive.
- Almost not emotional depth, everyone is always in a good mood.
- Started off fairly grounded, but then power scaling for no reason.
- Repetitive and boring.
- What the fuck is up with dogs being intelligent enough to do the PP things, but also being subservient to humans? The whole dynamic is so fucked, Bluey doesn’t have humans at all.
I only compare them because the are both dog based kids shows. But PP sucks
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Such a great show. That Sleepytime episode always ruins me though. About how kids need their parents less and less as time goes on and they become more independent, fuuuuck.
What’s interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word “powerhouse” for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.
Since it’s not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means “building or shed that we keep our generators in”.
Power plant🌱
Yes, that’s the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.
Its rare for us to have “power houses” now, and when we do no one calls them that.
Mitochondria is the solar farm of the cell.
The power generating stations near me are still called Power houses.
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I don’t know. Wouldn’t that mean cells could violently explode and cause a chain reaction if nearby cells exploding as well?
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins
Inertia is a property of matter
Mitosis is….
Damn, I haven’t thought about that 90’s Sabrina show since, well… the 90’s!
Why does everyone know this, but still think the definition of “metabolism” is solely built towards fake weight loss regiments? Bit of a tangent.
Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.
Same here in Germany - immediately came to my mind!
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This has got to be the funniest summary of A Wind in the Door
the mitochondria is the energy center of the cell
it’s at this point a joke seen in non science contexts
