ENERGY BOOST. “By transferring most genes other than those needed for rapidly responsive respiration to the nucleus and amplifying those few many times over (many mitochondrial genomes per organelle and many organelles per cell), eukaryotes have vastly increased the average energy available per gene expressed, protein synthesis being the cell’s greatest expense.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022