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protomitochondrion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The ancestral bacterial endosymbiont from which all mitochondria are thought to be derived

Word forms

protomitochondrion protomitochondria proto-mitochondrion

Etymology

From proto- + mitochondrion.

Related words

protomitochondrial

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