[coolcase]

Wouldn't mind some bird mitochondria!

[b800h]

Seriously, what would happen if we swapped out human mitochondria from a zygote for bird mitochondria?

[jyounker]

I don't think you'd get the same sort of effects, because a huge part of the mitochondrial regulation and function is carried out by genes and gene products from outside the mitochondria.

It would be an interesting experiment though. I'd expect that they might not live, or that the cell would function sub-optimally, but who knows, maybe the cellular machinery is highly conserved.

[dghughes]

You'd get Kids in the Hall Chicken Lady.

[mckirk]

And some whale blood!