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Pavlova-9 [17]
4 years ago
9

Individual cells are usually very small because...?

Biology
2 answers:
sveta [45]4 years ago
7 0
They are usually small because they need to transport nutrients across the membrane. Only particular amount can cross per/area. As the volume of cell increases, it increases in geomatrically faster than the area of the membrane.It becomes difficult to a certain point to supply the given volume with enough membrane to allow the gases/other molecules to transport across the membrane

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Rama09 [41]4 years ago
4 0
Because the people that mae them wanted them to be very small

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