Who was the person used term mitochondria?
- Who was the person used term mitochondria?
Carl Benda
- What is the origin of mitochondria?
Mitochondria evolved from an endosymbiotic alphaproteobacterium (purple) within an archaeal-derived host cell that was most closely related to Asgard archaea (green). The earliest ancestor of mitochondria (that is not also an ancestor of an extant alphaproteobacterium) is the pre-mitochondrial alphaproteobacterium.