The term mitochondria was coined by ___:

Q. The term mitochondria was coined by ___:
Answer: Carl Benda
Notes: The first observations of intracellular structures that probably represented mitochondria were published in the 1840s. Richard Altmann, in 1890, established them as cell organelles and called them “bioblasts”. The term “mitochondria” was coined by German microbiologist Carl Benda in 1898.

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