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The interior membrane surface area of mitochondria is greatly increased by structures called _______.

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The inner membrane is usually highly convoluted, forming a series of infoldings, known as cristae, that project into the matrix. These convolutions greatly increase the area of the inner membrane, so that in a liver cell, for example, it constitutes about one-third of the total cell membrane.

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