
Mitochondria
In Our Time: Science
The Dance of Life to the Rest of the Field
Richard Altman first observed cell division in the 19th century. He used a dye that dissolved all cells apart from what he called 'elementary organisms' These were thought to be long sausage shaped things, but they were actually threads and granules. The mitochondria weren't known until about the 1940s when it was shown where energy is being generated by ATP.
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