The cell wall is the wall of the cell.
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 23 Jun 20:43
https://mander.xyz/post/32684312

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MrQuallzin@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 21:15 next collapse

The cell is the cell of the cell

dalekcaan@lemm.ee on 23 Jun 23:33 next collapse

Cells within cells within cells, interlinked

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 23:40 collapse

And blood-black nothingness began to spin… A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem… And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

Cells.

Cells.

Have you ever been in an institution? Cells.

Cells.

Do they keep you in a cell? Cells.

Cells.

When you’re not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.

Cells.

Interlinked.

Interlinked.

What’s it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.

Interlinked.

Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.

Interlinked.

Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.

Interlinked.

Do you dream about being interlinked?

Interlinked.

What’s it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked.

Interlinked.

Do you feel that there’s a part of you that’s missing? Interlinked.

Interlinked.

Within cells interlinked.

Within cells interlinked.

Why don’t you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.

Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 07:36 collapse

the mitochondria is the cell of the cell

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 21:22 next collapse

the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jun 21:28 next collapse

The midichlorian is the light saber of the cell.

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 23:44 collapse

[Playful] Don’t force it there.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jun 21:33 next collapse

The HIV is the HIV of the cell.

subtext@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 21:39 next collapse

The cell wall is the wall of the cell

Finally one I can remember

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:41 collapse

For real? Any tips for those of us having problems?

MrShankles@reddthat.com on 23 Jun 21:46 next collapse

Welcome to the slaughterhouse; I’m autosome

[deleted] on 23 Jun 22:39 next collapse

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protist@mander.xyz on 23 Jun 22:40 next collapse

The cell membrane is the thin veneer of respectability of the cell

TachyonTele@piefed.social on 24 Jun 00:34 collapse

Phew. Ok. Ive got that one down.
Depending on the day.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:11 next collapse

Sadly, humans don’t have chloroplasts.

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 23:44 next collapse

[Reference] You will feel ashamed of your words and deeds.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 23:49 collapse

I really wish we could photosynthesize. I hate having to poop.

TachyonTele@piefed.social on 24 Jun 00:32 collapse

It takes so much time out of the day. It's boring.

GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jun 01:08 next collapse

Eh, it can work with artificial light. I’ll just convert my gaming room to a grow house.

TachyonTele@piefed.social on 24 Jun 02:34 collapse

Love it

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jun 02:05 collapse

Yeah, it’s such a shit time.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 07:54 collapse

unironically it’s pretty strange that i’ve never even heard of people trying to rectify this, surely someone has tried plonking some choloplasts in a skin cell culture and seeing how it goes?

Geodad@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 15:12 next collapse

Funding is probably the issue.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 15:12 collapse

Funding is probably the issue.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 19:20 collapse

you don’t need any funding beyond standard lab equipment to do this, from what i know it’d be a pretty standard setup

it’s just strange i’ve not heard about it, like someone must have done it and i should have learnt about it via cultural osmosis

Geodad@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 21:27 collapse

Gene editing is kinda controversial in the US though. Lots of regulatory hoops you would have to jump through to avoid becoming a criminal.

Edit: unless you grease the right palms.

Lumidaub@feddit.org on 23 Jun 23:24 next collapse

Non-anglophones, is this a thing you can relate to? I’ve never been told “das Mitochondrium ist das Kraftwerk der Zelle” or anything like it, at least not nearly to the extent that anglophones seem to, so much so that it’s forever burnt into their brain folds apparently.

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jun 23:45 next collapse

All of us who learned Spanish in the U.S. also know “¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”

Just a bunch of canned phrases like that kicking around in our brains.

TachyonTele@piefed.social on 24 Jun 00:35 next collapse

All I remember from Spanish class is "no en nintendo"

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org on 24 Jun 01:13 collapse

The FitnessGram Pacer test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues.

Denvil@lemmy.ml on 24 Jun 02:24 collapse

The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal bodeboop.

Zkuld@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 05:35 collapse

What is going on at your schools?!

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jun 15:09 collapse

FitnessGram Pacer Tests, obviously

Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca on 23 Jun 23:54 next collapse

As a Canadian, I share your confusion. I think that phrase was just a common descriptor of mitochondria in US textbooks, or a catchy line in a popular US biology video.

It’s just strange enough to make a big impression on bored students, so I’m not surprised it’s been memed so hard.

protist@mander.xyz on 24 Jun 01:23 collapse

I think it was tossed around on Reddit a lot, too, back in the day, increasing its permeation through our ilk

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml on 24 Jun 10:48 collapse

Wikipedia says:

The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]

But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:

<img alt="screenshot of text: “what i learned from school 1. im a fucking piece of shit 2. everybody else is also a fucking piece of shit 3. mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/95d56d29-6964-4349-bf0b-808cbc327a04.png">

Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.

(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)

rooroo@feddit.org on 24 Jun 06:07 next collapse

As a German, I’ve definitely learned that in school. Maybe it was memes by then as well, but it being the late 90s I doubt it.

flora_explora@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 07:02 collapse

Same!

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 07:47 next collapse

i don’t even remember learning about the mitochondrion in school lmao

wieson@feddit.org on 24 Jun 10:15 collapse

I think “endoplasmatisches Retikulum” is a more memorable phrase we learn or meme about

Bodo Wartke - endoplasmatisches Retikulum

[deleted] on 23 Jun 23:33 next collapse

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Deconceptualist@lemm.ee on 24 Jun 01:31 collapse

The cell walls are the walls of the cells :p

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 07:52 collapse

the cell is stored in the walls

JayGray91@piefed.social on 24 Jun 01:41 next collapse

ngl this would help in high school equivalent biology class decades ago lol

davepleasebehave@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 05:15 next collapse

The Vault is the _____ of the cell?

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 24 Jun 05:24 next collapse

The Undertaker threw Mankind off hell of the cell

ynthrepic@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 05:44 next collapse

This shit gives me existential dread and hope.

Like the complexity of cells might as well be an alien civilization, but all that somehow results in something that it’s like to be me. That’s so fundamentally mysterious, all I can do is conclude that consciousness has to be the prior of the universe. So on the one hand I’m nothing, and on the other, maybe I’m immortal. I won’t know until I’m dead.

saimen@feddit.org on 24 Jun 09:57 collapse

To add to that, similarly like there are microscopic and macroscopic processes we can only indirectly perveive, there are probably also processes on a much smaller and much larger timescale we can therefore only indirectly perceive.

Like one cell could be the whole universe of some absurdly small conscious beings with a lifespan of less than a femtosecond.

ynthrepic@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 13:46 collapse

Utterly absurd, and yet we know this with far more certainty than the most well subscribed religions know anything. There are so laughably unimaginative too compared to this reality. And yet, the knowing is also a burden. 😅

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 06:06 next collapse

The cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein is the office guy who’s always around but nobody knows what his job is.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jun 07:35 collapse

of the cell

Townlately@feddit.nl on 24 Jun 06:13 next collapse

This is absoplasmic reticulous.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 08:31 next collapse

There’s a wall on that cell, like some sort of… Cell wall-

Wait, say that again

Fedizen@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 09:01 next collapse

Ok now do the ye olde version

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 24 Jun 09:05 collapse

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Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 15:22 collapse

“what part of the cell is the red arrow pointing at?”

Well, I’ve got a 50/50 shot if I exclude “B. Hair” and “D. Eyeball”

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 24 Jun 09:46 next collapse

The Human is the Fediverse of cells.

Midnitte@beehaw.org on 24 Jun 11:00 next collapse

Wtf is a workhouse?

How about the ER is the Amazon Warehouse, since it folds up protein?

Or maybe the ER is the gym, since it synthesizes protein?

Or maybe workhorse since it seems to do so much…

Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee on 24 Jun 13:59 next collapse

Edit: the joke has already been made here.

Mustakrakish@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 14:19 next collapse

Some of them seem a bit obtuse. “Municipal hall” doesn’t immediately conjure a vivid image of it’s role.

Limonene@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 14:29 next collapse

The cell membrane is the wall of the cell. I know it’s less catchy, but human cells don’t have a cell wall.

NichtElias@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jun 15:44 collapse

Human cells also don’t have chloroplasts. Maybe the cell membrane is the fence of the cell.

darcranium123@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 15:25 next collapse

I did a podcas (I know 🙄), where we talked about how much better our civilization would run if we modeled it after a cell or organism. Like for example, only about 10% of the total amount of ATP generated by the mitochondria goes to the nucleus, so maybe the people in charge in America should only get about 10% of the total distributed wealth/resources

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jun 21:42 collapse

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