Cell Growth Research Paper

The ways in which cells interact with each other is very similar to many concepts used in the real world due to the interactions between the cells and the techniques used for cell growth. A multitude of the techniques used by the cells in the biological market, during the process of trading metabolic products between bacteria, are almost identical to techniques used by countries, firms, and people in the economic market. Through the trade of metabolic products the cells are functioning as a country in the economic market trading goods using the principle of comparative advantage as a means of maintain efficiency during cell growth. In the economic market a country that produces two goods on its own has a choice to make. The choice to be made …show more content…
A country is not able to produce 100 units of good A, and 100 units of good B, the country must split the work in half, perhaps by producing 50 units of each product. This is where the opportunity cost of producing a product comes in to play; the opportunity cost of producing more of good A, for example, is the units of good B that could have been produced in that time. In the biological market when cells produce amino acids and other metabolic products the cell needs to make a choice because like a country, the cell is not able to produce a maximum amount of each metabolic product. When examining two identical cells and their function in the biological markets, cells seem to specialize in producing one metabolic product and creating excess which are then traded between identical cells in exchange for a different metabolic product the other cell has specialized in. When this occurs in the economic market it is phrased by a term called comparative advantage in which case, similar to countries interacting, a cell and a cell alike are both producing for themselves, however if cell A is more efficient at producing a vital amino acid and cell B is more efficient at producing a different vital