Medical Definition of Mitochondrial chromosome

1. The DNA component of mitochondria, the chief function of which is synthesis of adenosine triphosphate and the management of cellular energy; the chromosome contains some 16,000 base pairs arranged in a circle. The inheritance is matrilineal, and the mutation rate is unusually high; since each cell contains thousands of copies a mutant form may assume an almost continuous gradation as in a galtonian process. Most of the mutations known have their impact on the respiratory chain. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitochondrial Chromosome

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mitigatingly
mitigation
mitigations
mitigative
mitigator
mitigators
mitigatory
miting
mitis
mitises
mitobronitol
mitochondria
mitochondrial
mitochondrial DNA
mitochondrial chromosome (current term)
mitochondrial disease
mitochondrial encephalomyopathies
mitochondrial gene
mitochondrial genome
mitochondrial inheritance
mitochondrial intermediate peptidase
mitochondrial matrices
mitochondrial matrix
mitochondrial membrane
mitochondrial myopathies
mitochondrial oxidative damage endonuclease
mitochondrial swelling
mitochondrially

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