In Popular Culture
In Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, the Farandolae are fictional creatures that live inside mitochondria, and do circular "dances" around their "trees of origin".
In the 2012 feature film The Bourne Legacy, the green pills taken by Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) contain a virus that implants itself in the user's cells, increasing mitochondrial output.
Read more about this topic: Mitochondrion
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)