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Mitochondrion in a sentence
Mitochondrion meaning
A spherical or ovoid organelle found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and containing genetic material separate from that of the host; it is responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy in the form of ATP.
Synonyms of Mitochondrion
Using Mitochondrion
- The main meaning on this page is: A spherical or ovoid organelle found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and containing genetic material separate from that of the host; it is responsible for the conversion of food to usable energy in the form of ATP.
- Useful related words include: chondriosome, organelle, cell organelle, cell organ.
- In the example corpus, mitochondrion often appears in combinations such as: the mitochondrion, mitochondrion is, single mitochondrion.
Context around Mitochondrion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mitochondrion
- In this selection, "mitochondrion" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, single, although and may stand out and add context to how "mitochondrion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the mitochondrion and a single mitochondrion can contain. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mitochondrion" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mitochondrion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Acetyl-CoA cannot be transported out of the mitochondrion. (9 words)
A single mitochondrion is often found in unicellular organisms. (9 words)
Curiously the mitochondrion and the plastid of the diatom remain functional. (11 words)
Time-lapse imaging may be able to capture a fusion event between distinct cristae protruding from opposing sides of the mitochondrion, although we cannot rule out the possibility that two opposing cristae happen to come close each other without fusion (). (40 words)
Adding more of any of these intermediates to the mitochondrion therefore means that that additional amount is retained within the cycle, increasing all the other intermediates as one is converted into the other. (33 words)
BBC. 2 August 2012 Uniparental inheritance leads to little opportunity for genetic recombination between different lineages of mitochondria, although a single mitochondrion can contain 2–10 copies of its DNA. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
The oxaloacetate is returned to mitochondrion as malate (and then back into oxaloacetate to transfer more acetyl-CoA out of the mitochondrion).
Inspired by Noah's older brother Freddie's love of dinosaurs, the logo creatively combines the shape of a dinosaur with the outline of a mitochondrion.
A protein is an instance of a macromolecule as a mitochondrion is a good example of an organelle.
Time-lapse imaging may be able to capture a fusion event between distinct cristae protruding from opposing sides of the mitochondrion, although we cannot rule out the possibility that two opposing cristae happen to come close each other without fusion ().
Acetyl-CoA cannot be transported out of the mitochondrion.
Adding more of any of these intermediates to the mitochondrion therefore means that that additional amount is retained within the cycle, increasing all the other intermediates as one is converted into the other.
A plastid is required to continue expressing the gene for tRNA-fmet so long as the mitochondrion is translating proteins.
A single mitochondrion is often found in unicellular organisms.
BBC. 2 August 2012 Uniparental inheritance leads to little opportunity for genetic recombination between different lineages of mitochondria, although a single mitochondrion can contain 2–10 copies of its DNA.
Curiously the mitochondrion and the plastid of the diatom remain functional.
During gluconeogenesis mitochondrial oxaloacetate is reduced to malate which is then transported out of the mitochondrion, to be oxidized back to oxaloacetate in the cytosol.
Eventually, the aerobic bacterium could no longer live independently from the cell, and it, therefore, became a mitochondrion.
For example, a single mitochondrion may divide synchronously with the nucleus.
For example, the mitochondrial matrix separates the mitochondrion into many compartments.
However, it is also necessary to transport phosphate into the mitochondrion; the phosphate carrier moves a proton in with each phosphate, partially dissipating the proton gradient.
However, the mitochondrion has many other functions in addition to the production of ATP.
It contains about 2/3 of the total protein in a mitochondrion.
One mitochondrion can contain two to ten copies of its DNA. citation As in prokaryotes, there is a very high proportion of coding DNA and an absence of repeats.
The energy released during this process is used to create a hydrogen ion (or proton) gradient across the inner membrane of the mitochondrion.
The genome also includes the mitochondrial DNA, a comparatively small circular molecule present in each mitochondrion.
Common combinations with mitochondrion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mitochondrion 16×
- mitochondrion is 3×
- single mitochondrion 3×
- mitochondrion and 3×
- mitochondrion can 2×
- mitochondrion to 2×
- mitochondrion into 2×
- in mitochondrion 2×
- one mitochondrion 2×