ScrooLewse

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[–] ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's been so ubiquitous for so long that I honestly don't know where it came from. But most of the time when I hear "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" it's being used to take a jab at how impractical our education system is, as though to say, "instead of teaching me about X, they taught me about the mitochondria"