BIOL 230 Lecture Guide - Electron Micrograph of Mitochondria

Transmission Electron Micrograph of a Mitochondrion

Mitochondrion and surrounding cytoplasm of a cell from the pancreas of a bat. It is bounded by a smooth outer membrane about 7nm thick.
An inner membrane has infoldings called cristae that project into the interior of the organelle. Rough endoplasmic reticula surround the mitochondrion.

Kieth Porter (2011) CIL:11397, Myotis lucifugus. CIL. Dataset. https://doi.org/doi:10.7295/W9CIL11397h

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