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		WalterSear 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mitochondria Are Alive > Could they have remained as independent organisms and use their massive energy budget to evolve independently? This presumes that their energy budget was massive to begin with, rather than being selected for over time.

Symmetry 11 months ago [–]

It's more that cells can have large numbers of mitochondria than that teach produces a large amount of power. Prokaryotic cells can grow large, but because they respirate over their surface they are energy limited.

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