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11274000695Lack Membrane bound OrganellesWhy are Prokaryotic cells smaller than Eukaryotic Cells?0
11274000700DecreasesWhat happens to the SA:V as a sphere increases its radius?1
11274000701IncreasesWhat happens to the surface area/volume as a sphere decreases its radius?2
11274000702Maintain a high surface area/volume and a nucleus/cytoplasmWhy are cells small?3
11274000703IncreasesAs SA:V increases for a cell the rate of diffusion...4
1127400070410 - 100 micrometersDiameter of most eukaryotic cells5
11274000706.1 - 10 micrometersDiameter of most Bacteria cells6
11274000707Central VacuoleWhat structure increases the volume of plant cells to be bigger than animal cells?7
11274000708Flatten or increase number of projectionsWhat will happen to a cell's structure to increase its surface area?8
11274000709Frog Eggs200g of chicken eggs and 200g of frog eggs, which has a greater amount of surface area?9
11274000710Chicken Eggs200g of chicken eggs and 200g of frog eggs, which has a slower rate of diffusion?10
11274069776Nutrients, wastes and chemical messengersItems that regularly cross the cell membrane11
11274098670GenomeThe totality of genetic information belonging to a cell or an organism; in particular the DNA that carries this information12
11274117432Gene control regionThe set of linked DNA sequences regulating the expression of a particular gene13
11274125649Size of the genomeDo not correlate with the complexity of the organism14
11274135963less than 2%Percentage of the human genome that codes for proteins15
112742730261mm16
112742760621nm17
1127427724710nm18
11274278013100nm19
112742817871um20
1127428267810um21
11274283265100um22
11274284995100pm23
11274363684Driesch theoryIn all organisms of the same phylum, corresponding cells by shape, function and position in the body have similar dimensions24
11274388275Perennial cells, syncytia and plasmoidsGiuseppe Levi identified exception to Driesch theory which are represented by...25
112744176292nd limitation to cell sizeNucleus/cytoplasma26
112744320401st limitation to cell sizesurface area/volume27
11274441401Inversely proportionalcell volume and metabolic activity are....28
11274445950Egg cellA cell with a large volume and a low metabolic activity...29

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