Examples of “mitochondria” in a Sentence

noun The structures inside almost every plant and animal cell that convert food and oxygen into usable energy, in the form of ATP. The singular is mitochondrion.

• Muscle cells are packed with mitochondria because they need so much energy.

noun These structures considered as a genetic system, whose DNA is passed down the maternal line and is used to trace ancestry and to diagnose inherited disease.

• Mitochondria carry their own small loop of DNA, inherited from the mother.
• Analysis of the mitochondria placed the remains in a known European lineage.