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different fathers (orange, blue) to the egg cell (white) resulting in herbicide-resistant plants. Polyspermy describes the fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm cell. In animals this usually has devastating [...] production. Mitochondria are organelles located inside eukaryotic cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. Apart from producing energy, mitochondria also regulate important [...] important cellular processes including signal transduction, redox homeostasis and programmed cell death (1). Or, as Nick Lane once put it “Mitochondria are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide.” (2) more References