You can’t escape your heritage; we all go through life with an assortment of ‘baggage’ that betrays our origins, whether it’s our accent, cultural preferences or clothing. And, as regards the latter, the same can be...
Tag - mitochondrion
Nigel Chaffey
Marvellously mobile mitochondria…or are they?
Can anybody doubt how marvellously dynamic a plant cell is when one watches videos of such phenomena as cytoplasmic streaming? And plant cells aren’t limited to mass movements of organelles within the cytoplasm...
Chloroplasts are how old???
It is widely acknowledged that eukaryotic cells (you know, the ones with a membrane-bound nucleus and a variety of other membrane-bound organelles (cf. prokaryotes)) came to be so complex by a series of ‘mergers and...
