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But count we are really mitochondrians- a hundred times as many of them inside us as human cells. So human cells are really just vessels for mitochondria to make nore mitochondria with a bit of embelishment on the side.

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My laptop has more screws than CPUs. Does that mean my laptop is more of a screw holder than a computer?

wouldn't it be a fairer comparison screws to transistors?

Analogies are pretty imperfect, but maybe lithium battery cells would be a better analogy to mitochondria.

It will be a functional screw holder longer than it will be a functional computer.

Maybe that's what George Lucas was thinking of when he came up with the term 'midchlorian.'

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