Why our cell does not grow bigger?

Question

Why our cell does not grow bigger?

Answer 1

i believe thats called cancer

Answer 2

Because of the surface area to volume ratio. When anything becomes bigger, the volume increases faster than the surface area. The surface area is responsible for excretion of wastes and absorption. The volume influences the rate of production of wastes and the rate of consumption of nutrients, etc. Since as a cell gets bigger, the surface area cannot keep up with the volume, diffusion of wastes/nutrients cannot happen fast enough for the rate of excretion/consumption. Thus, our cell sizes are limited.

Answer 3

Because the size they are is the optimum volume to surfrace area ratio.

Answer 4

There is a limit to how large a cell can grow because the larger the cell the smaller the ratio between the volume and surface area of the cell, which would create problems

Cells need to excrete wastes and release heat at the same rate as it produces wastes and heat. If the cell becomes too large, there will not be enough surface area to excrete all the wastes and release all the heat produced by the cell (the volume is too much). To prevent this, the cell has a limit to how large it can grow.

Also bigger the cell grows lesser would be the space for other cells to grow as our body cannot accomodate such a huge space for millions of cells.So cells rather multiply and divide instead of growing bigger.

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