This might sound stupid but what’s the joke? I know what mitochondria is and all that (learned that in eighth grade science a few years ago) but I’ve never heard a joke about it…
What also happened is that people complained about needing know basic biology, and then a pandemic happened, and people’s mis-understanding of basic biology all of a sudden mattered a lot.
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This might sound stupid but what’s the joke? I know what mitochondria is and all that (learned that in eighth grade science a few years ago) but I’ve never heard a joke about it…
I don’t know what that is.
You underestimate the power of ignorance
I think of Jerry from Rick and Morty
I’d argue that it’s because of our educations that we know it… It’s biology 101…
What also happened is that people complained about needing know basic biology, and then a pandemic happened, and people’s mis-understanding of basic biology all of a sudden mattered a lot.
I always thought that it was because of Parasite Eve
Yeah I’ve never heard this in my entire school life yet I know the phrase by heart
It wasn’t meant to be a joke but it’s memed for some reason
I sometimes have the same thought about Venn diagrams. Somehow they’ve become a Thing in internet pop culture…
OP is American?
The rest of us went to school, and in those schools, they taught things like these.
So, we can officially say that mitochondria are the new Kardashians of the biology world everyone knows their name now, thanks to that one joke.
A piece of information on something working allround
I always tried to distance myself from the joke, bit of a mitochrondriac myself.
Similarly, a single tv episode taught an entire generation of children what aglets are
Chlorophyll?!
More like BORrophyll
Some of us also paid attention in biology class.
The day science advances to the point that turns out to be wrong is going to be a bloodbath.