Mitochondria is the power house of the cell

What if an extraterrestrial had the same mitochondria? Would sort of scientific impact would that have of our understanding of everything.

This is prokaryote erasure.

Thank you! I couldn't stand to hear this anti mitochondria slander.

Alien civilisation: Wait, you're telling me everyone here has a parasite that's within their own cells that is so well established that you can't live without it?

Human: Yeah, pretty much everything alive has it. Nbd.

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.

The phrase became unhelpful when it wat teached at very young age without any context...

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.

The hell you say! What magic is this?

Did your lecture get you laid?

I'm genuinely curious, how do you feel about parasite eve?

It's one of my all time favourite games.

Tell me more about avocado lungs...

Mitochondria are our best ally.

it only fuels reading DNA and it’s decoding and replication

and its* decoding and replication

My mitochondria are removed, 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.

Could cells live without mitochondria?

wait, we do inherit mitochondria through our mothers, and we can sequence it to find different maternal haplogroups.

Though it exists in parallel to our DNA, it does encode a lot about us and our genetics.

I think you're missing the point of why that phrase became a bit of a joke and is considered unhelpful. It's not written off because people think mitochondria are unimportant or should be written off, it's because when you're a teen learning this stuff and they're trying to explain how cells work, mitochondria are a particularly strange and complicated thing that's thrown in to the mix, and it sounds important and complicated but in lieu of any real details there's the sudden brick wall of this weirdly uncharacteristic phrase that doesn't really sound like how you're teacher normally speaks, doesn't really read like how the rest of the textbook reads and other than some vague allusion to "power" fails quite spectacularly to tell you what mitochondria are.

Part of what made it maddeningly confusing was that these lessons are getting you thinking about how mechanisms can coalesce to form larger systems, encouraging you interrogate macro scale phenomena down to the smallest scales and see how it all ticks and then suddenly they hit you with this magic "powerhouse", very poorly explained, and which because of that poor explanation appears somehow irreducibe. You know mitochondria have "power" of some sort but any of their own mechanisms are conspicuously left out of the picture. This is probably for good reason because of the difficulty of making a syllabus that isn't too deep or broad for the time available and for teenagers to pick up but it's a very sudden brick wall. HOW do the mitochondria power cells? Do the mitochondria have cells? Do the mitochondria's cells have mitochondria? How are they transmitting this power to our cells? The way this phrase was used was more reminiscent of a slogan, or an ad campaign and quite unlike much of anything else one remembers from biology class, it felt very... out of context. Even the choice of the word "power house" always felt weird, as it wasn't for me at least, a word commonly encountered so to use it as an analogy really undermined it's ability to help you grasp anything as it sought to explain one concept in terms of another only vaguely understood concept. I gathered this was a similar term to "power plant" although other than a popular museum in Sydney I had never heard the term used outside of that goofy phrase and to say mitochondria function similar to a power plant, in that they produce power doesn't really say much more than, "mitochondria are the energy source of cells" which is similarly meaningless in all but the most basic sense.

So, don't blame the mocking meme for dismissing mitochondria, blame the weird ass phrase the meme mocks for completely failing to explain anything about them and relegating them to a single, cryptic, hand waving sentence.

Knowing 'the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell' means absolutely nothing sans any context. It should make you sad that people's knowledge of your field is as shallow as a puddle. (Kidding mostly. Also projecting)

Physics can be done without mass. Next question

Troy and Abed in the mooorning!

Donde esta la discoteca? If you had a ‘cool’ teacher.

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.

Except in glacier, because English is fucked.

I always thought this one was pretty... WEIRD...

Like in “science”.

It's a meme in the netherlands as well.

Australian here, they taught us this meme in school.

Its taught in India as well, (and is also a meme here)

What's the singular, then?

The correct phrase is “The Mitochondria…” OP left off the “the”

I can't even visualise what you are saying

It was to to the tune of Frère Jacques when I learned it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_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 2A

Finding 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.

If you already know that much algebra you can use ax2 + bx + c = 0 and solve for x to get the formula if you forget it.

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.

yeah I've been on fire three times and it never occurred to me to stop drop and roll.

I learned it in German in Germany. Do we have evidence from the francophone world? Latam? China?

Definitely did it in Australia.

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.

Even worse: Columbus thought the earth was round but nobody believed him.

In 14 hundred and 92 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And also committed genocide

We never learnt that.

I wouldn't have gotten this without "rip pizzas"

Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no plate.

I think a big part of why it took off and lives on as a meme in the internet forums sense of the word, was the familiarity of the bizarre and unnatural phrase to the young adults using those forums who remembered it from biology class.

Certainly that's how it was for me because before Digg, or Reddit, even before Facebook (though I guess not that long before), I had had that phrase uttered sincerely as part of my education and it was so uncanny and funny to see that this highly specific and distinctive phrase was used rote, word for word, at schools all over the world and was as memorably unhelpful to others as it had been to me. Perhaps the positive feedback loop from this phrase's new life on the web really has fed in to education in a life imitating art kind of way like you describe, but I can assure you it definitely predated it's status as a joke, and that's where that joke came from.