As a cell grows, both its surface area and its volume grow. The surface area is important, as it limits the quantities of oxygen and nutrients the cell can take in, as well as the rate at which it can get rid of waste chemicals. The volume is important, as it contains the organelles that need the chemicals entering the cell and produce the wastes that have to be removed. As the volume increases, more organelles are formed.
With growth in size, the volume grows faster than the surface area. (The volume is measured in cubic units, such as cubic micrometers, whereas the area is measured in square units, so if a cell doubles its width (multiplies it by 2), the volume enlarges by the cube of 2, namely 8, while the surface area increases by only the square of 2, which is 4.) This means that there comes a point at which a cell cannot grow any bigger and still have enough area of surface membrane to supply all its organelles. The organelles in the center of the cell will not receive the necessary chemicals and be able to dispose of their waste products.
To put it more technically, the surface area : volume ratio decreases with increase in cell size, and eventually becomes limiting.
Mature plant cells can grow larger than most animal cells, because the interior of the cell is taken up not by cytoplasm but by a vacuole containing simply water with various chemicals in it. The vacuole contains no organelles.
The rule about surface area : volume ratio applies to any objects of different size, but of identical shape. Any object that become flatter increases the ratio of surface area to volume.
Another advantage of having many small cells is differentiation. The cells become specialized for different functions.
and also large cells won`t fitt in our body if they have large we become fatty people and go into gym and also there will beauties left in human beings
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If you mean single celled organisms, they rely on only one cell and the cell has organelles inside of it. The organelles take care of mostly everything; what you eat and breathe contribute to making the organelles work. If you mean the cell itself inside our bodies, they themselves are organisms because they have all the characteristics of life: needs water, needs nutrients, gas exchange, excretes wastes, grows, can die, reproduces, has cells and respond to stimuli. By the way, a cell by itself (as in outside from our bodies), away from the multicellular organism cannot survive. It needs to be within the multicellular orgamism.
Natural selection is when biological organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms that do not possess such traits. Organisms with negative or less useful traits survive and reproduce less successfully than organisms lacking such harmful traits. Natural selection played a huge part in the evolution of the great barracuda. The barracuda had to adapt their distinctive shape, design, and skills over the years and did so through many generations.
Archaebacteria differ from other bacteria in having a different cell wall structure and this feature is responsible for their survival in extreme conditions. Archaebacteria are characterised by absence of peptidoglycan in their cell walls. Instead cell wall contains protein and non cellulosic polysaccharide.
no, because they eat seeds and stuff like that. So that means they are omnivores.
These three ideas seem to run together, so it's important that you are able to distinguish among them. The theory that organisms change over time is evolution. The mechanism by which organisms evolve is natural selection. Survival of the fittest explains how natural selection works.Answer = Natural SelectionThe process of natural selection, of course.
In biological terms, fitness is the suitability of an individual, or of a species, for its environment: the better-adapted it is, the more likely it is to survive, and to thrive. In other words, it fits.fitness: the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.