Mitochondrion is an organelle found in Eukaryotic cells. They are called the powerhouse of the cell since they produce ATP through cell respiration. Mitochondria originated from free living bacteria before they were engulfed by other cells. This comes from the Endosymbiosis theory. Mitochondria can be used to measure human health, diseases like cancer and diabetes. They are able to detect these diseases by using the florescent lights called reporter gene. This created a type of protein that shows weather the cell is green, which means healthy or red, which means unhealthy. Scientists ran an experiment using mice and they found the reporter gene to be helpful for their results. The scientists found the red mitochondria occur in mice with fatty
