Tag: genes
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CTRL-C, CTRL-V: Plants plagiarize to make new mitochondrial proteins
You’ll probably remember this one from grade school biology. Mitochondria are ‘the powerhouse of the cell’. Which basically means that mitochondria take sugars and break them down to make energy. But those little powerhouses were once so much more- they were an entire organisms. A very long time ago, a certain type of proteobacteria was…