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Mitochondrial Ribosomes - Mitochondrial ribosomes have been called mitoribosomes to distinguish them from cytoplasmic ribosomes or cytoribosomes.

Mitoribosomes occur in a wide variety of forms, the predominant form in multicellular organisms being the 55S ribosome. Under certain conditions mitoribosomes have been obtained in aggregates of 2-7 ribosomes, forming polyribosomes.