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Alex Ar [27]
3 years ago
12

Explain why an organism grows in size when its cells can only achieve a certain size.

Biology
1 answer:
Elis [28]3 years ago
5 0
An organism keeps growing because it's cells multiply. Cells are only meant to be a certain size yes but they're also meant to duplicate. For example cancer cells, they only grow so big but then they duplicate causing the tumor to grow bigger. Does that make sense?
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