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> Mitochondria is a pita What's troublesome about mitochondria?

• x5n1 10y ago
  Mitochondria mutates at very fast rates because of the fact that it's constantly exposed to free radicals. Apparently sexual evolution occurred because of mitochondria
• gherkin0 10y ago
  Free-radicals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging#Mitochondrial_theory_of_aging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging#M...
  • marcosdumay 10y ago
    You'll get those in any respiration cycle based on oxygen. Mixing extremely reactive substances will destroy something. It's better to just deal with it, and reconstruct whatever is damaged - the path our body tries hard to take.