protomitochondrion

English

Alternative forms

  • proto-mitochondrion

Etymology

From proto- +‎ mitochondrion.

Noun

protomitochondrion (plural protomitochondria)

  1. (biology) The ancestral bacterial endosymbiont from which all mitochondria are thought to be derived
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