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 Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject: Efficiency ATP Production of Mitochondria in Diff. Body Part |
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This Science Fair Project seeked to determine the relative efficiencies of ATP production of mitochondria in different body segments of Drosophila melanogaster.
Efficiency of ATP Production of Mitochondria in Different Body
Segments of Drosophila melanogaster
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My data seems to show that my hypothesis was correct and thorax mitochondria are much more efficient
in the production of ATP. Head and abdomen mitochondria RCR values are too close to show which is
more efficient. If after further research I determine the cause of these differing values to truly be variable
efficiency of mitochondria in different tissues, there are two hypotheses I wish to explore. The first being
that mitochondria with different features function as egg polarity factors (cytoplasmic determinants) in the
early embryo, and the second being that different nuclear genes that control mitochondria function are
transcribed in different tissues causing different efficiencies of mitochondria in these tissues. |
Full report: http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2004/Projects/S0419.pdf |
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