surface-to-volume ratio. As a cell gets bigger (no matter what the shape of the cell is, being spherical, cuboidal, columnar, what have you...) the volume of the cell gets bigger FASTER than the surface area of the cell. The surface area is the outermost part of the cell and in the real world, this represents the cell membrane. This is bad news for a cell. Why? First you have to realize that the cell membrane is responsible for transporting things into and out of the cell. Basically then, the inside…
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