MITOCHONDRIA

MAIN FUNCTION

• To produce adenosine triphosphate. (ATP)
• ATP is produced in what they call the cell's power plant.
• Digest food for nutrients for the cell.

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LESSER KNOW FUNCTIONS

• They are involved in other task like signaling
• Cellular differentiation,cell death,as well as the
• Controll of the cell cycle,and growth.
• (Cellular differentiation is the process in which a less
• Specialized cell becomes a more specialized cell type)

DISEASES CONNECTED TO THE MITOCHONDRIA

• CPEO
• (Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia)
• This disease slowly progressive paralysis of the extraocular muscles.
• This disease causes bluryness and possible loss of eye sight. This disease
• Can also spread though others cells.

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THE HISTORY OF THE MITOCHONDRIA

• The earliest records on intracellular structures that probably represent
• MItochondria go back to the 1840s, only s few years after the
• discovery of the cell Nucleus.
• Richard Altmann found the mitochondria in the 1840's but the term
• Mitochondria was coined by a man named Carl Benda in 1898.

RICHARD ALTMANN