Consider that there are thousands of mitochondria (MT) in an individual muscle cell. Cell diagrams often make it look like there is one MT organelle. It's highl

Consider that there are thousands of mitochondria (MT) in an individual muscle cell. Cell diagrams often make it look like there is one MT organelle. It's highly misleading. Single cell bacteria have thousands of genes. MT have a few dozen genes. Many of the genes that regulate MT are contained in the cell's nucleus.