@mitochon2020 Mitochondria are all brawn and no brains! You wouldn’t want them to run the cell! Vote endomembrane system: the organized choice. #brainsoverbrawn
mitochondria enable cells to produce 15 times more ATP than they could otherwise, and complex animals, like humans, need large amounts of energy to survive.
Mitochondria are vital to survival, without us higher animals couldn’t exist bc their cells wouldn’t be able to obtain obtain energy from anaerobic respiration, a process much less efficient than aerobic respiration