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Without them what would we do with the oxygen? It is interesting indeed how we are systems which work cooperatively and without all the bacteria we carry around and parasites we really would not function very well. Maybe I should stop washing my hands after going to the bathroom? Hank NOTE: There are a couple of excellent podcasts which are very interesting for those who are interested in biology, which is a topic which has increased in awareness as much as technology has. Maybe more? Naked Science, SETI, and Science Friday are very good. So is Nature (the magazine; their podcasts) and Scientific American also does podcasting. Yahoo now has a good directory of podcasts also and all you need to do is search under "science". -- By the way we all have mitochondria, males and females -- but only the females pass them on. In Judaism you must be born of a Jewish mother to be Jewish (unless converted) so this makes biological sense in that respect - that the maternal lineage can be traced via mitochondria. On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, James a. Mulick, PhD wrote: > > Mitochondria are important because without them working very well, you die. > They are the power plants in living cells. > > Mitochondrion >> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > Jump to: navigation, search > > In cell biology, a mitochondrion (plural mitochondria) (from Greek mitos > thread + khondrion granule) is an organelle, variants of which are found in > most eukaryotic cells[1][1]. Mitochondria are sometimes described as > "cellular power plants," because their primary function is to convert > organic materials into energy in the form of ATP via the process of > oxidative phosphorylation. Usually a cell has hundreds or thousands of > mitochondria, which can occupy up to 25% of the cell's cytoplasm. > Mitochondria usually have their own DNA and are accepted by Endosymbiotic > theory to have descended from once free-living bacteria[2], that were > closely related to rickettsia bacteria. > > > James A. Mulick, Ph.D. > Professor, Pediatrics & Psychology > The Ohio State University > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ ----- Something Really Nice for your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: http://tinyurl.com/q878y --------------------------------------------- NEVER pay for a podcast again: Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r -----
