• @[email protected]
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    366 months ago

    What if they’re only to make the cells bigger so our bodies don’t need to make so many of them to reach a total size as large as we are?

    • spicy pancake
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      146 months ago

      that wouldn’t be an unfounded hypothesis. surface area to volume ratio is extremely important in cells. by artificially lowering the volume (by taking up a lot of it with a structure) the cell can make better use of its existing surface area

      though it looks like the volume of these structures aren’t that large comparatively