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lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoThat makes it sound like each cell has one mitochondrion and each mitochondrion equates to one powerhouse while in fact, all mitochondria of a cell collectively are the powerhouse of the cell
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 days ago
not necessarily. for example we say things like “the lion is the king of the jungle,” but that doesn’t mean there’s only one lion per jungle. sometimes we refer to an archetypal singular to convey something about every member of a group
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
And sometimes we use the etymological plural of a loan word for the singular or mass noun. Like spaghetti (Italian plural of spaghetto), visa (visum), salami (salame), broccoli (broccolo), mitochondria, …