Nick Lane --The Vital Question, Post #6 -- June 12, 2019

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• Ribosomes: 13 million ribosomes in a single liver cell

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• ATP: a single cell consumers around 10 million molecules of ATP every second.

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• Respiratory complexes: one mitochondrion contains tens of thousands of copies of each respiratory complex.

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• Electric field: the ATP "feels" a force of 30 million volts per meter, equal to a bolt of lightning, or a thousand times the capacity of normal household wiring.