The heat from these engines
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The cell's power plant is the mitochondria. In each power plant, there are many
engines producing energy. Fuel & air fill each engine's cylinder and is ignited. Once
ignited, the fuel burns, creating the power to turn the wheels. The heat from these
engines is called body heat.There are many things that can go wrong inside one of these complex
engines. Mother nature is amazing. These engines have the ability to self correct
& self repair many of the things that break. I would love to have a car that
has a self correcting & self repairing engine! The cell needs an opportunity
and occasionally a little help to perform its repair job.
Speaking of self repairing, if the pistons in the above picture are out of sync, use
the back arrow on the title bar (or back up one page) and then return here (using
the forward arrow.) The pistons will self correct and synchronize with each
other.
Keeping with our analogy -- each cell is a city. Each city has many mitochondrion power
plants. Each power plant has many engines, and each engine has many pistons. Remember,
these are only analogies. They don't exist as cities or power plants. Biochemistry has
many other names for these working parts. The analogies help explain the complex
relationships among the different working parts.
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