Sunday 19 March 2017

Bridget | 100WC | Week 26

Mitochondria! Reminds me of one of those dolls that sits inside one another getting smaller every time. How can something be tiny, but spoken as a really long word? English is strange! Have you even heard of something that is smaller than a simple full stop? Literally. It must be too teeny to imagine! How do scientists know what it looks like? They would need five hundred million microscopes overlapping it! Is it even possible for 56,250,000,000,000,000 things to drift in our body plus the bones, blood, fat, muscles and everything else? I’m really confused!

Meaning for Mitochondria
*Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. They are organelles that act like a digestive system which takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy rich molecules for the cell. The biochemical processes of the cell are known as cellular respiration.
There is 1000 to 2000 mitochondria in one cell. There are 37.5 trillion cells in our body which means there are


1 comment:

  1. A really imaginative response to the question! Great use of grammar and punctuation (especially your use of the rhetorical questions). I also really like the definition you added into the end, but I agree, it is confusing! Keep up the good work!

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