Time to collect my paycheck I guess 😂

(Also: When the fuck did I ever mention Taiwan? I said “Before becoming a Wumao, learn some Chinese”. Bro is mad 😁)

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      It’s just that oxidative phosphorylation with the mitochondria is dramatically more efficient than basic ass glycolysis. Animals couldn’t exist as fast moving creatures without mitochondria.

      The meme about the mitochondria is only for people that haven’t taken biochemistry. But the citric acid cycle is super interesting.

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        They made a small bag covered in proteins and use the energy from breaking down citric acid to keep pumping in protons.

        The protons can leave, but they have to push a turnstile that phosphoralyzes adp first.

        It’s simple, but elegant, rube-Goldberg reduced to its essentials.