The Evolution of Cell Size

Some animals get bigger by adding more cells and some animals that get bigger by just having bigger cells. So it's mostly like, yeah, like Hank said, single celled organisms Do not have gigantic cells. They would be very funny if cell size did increase with body. We do have big cells. Like human cells. Compared to bacteria, our cells. How's it going to ask? Are we all working with about the same size cells or no? No. I think that in terms of eukaryotes, well, there are some eukaryote that have massive cells that you can see with your eye. But then colloquially growth can also mean growing in population.

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