The surface area/volume ratio is an important factor for one celled organisms. As a cell's volume grows, its surface area/volume
ratio decreases, making it harder and harder to acquire enough nutrients via diffusion. Because of this, cells stop growing after reaching a certain size. After reaching this state, a one celled organism is likely to
Single-celled organisms use mitosis to reproduce. Both growth and reproduction in unicellular organisms are mutually inclusive. When the cell’s volume grows, the ratio of surface area to volume decreases creating challenges in acquisition of nutrients because there will be too much cytoplasm for a given amount of nuclear material , thus the cell divides by mitosis to reproduce daughter cells and the process begins again.
Loess is a sediment that is formed from silt deposits due to wind. The composition of the silt is clay and sand. The components are cemented together by calcium carbonate. The silts are blown by wind and accumulate in a singular location.
