Cell Size Lab

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The purpose of this lab, cell size activity, was to determine how small cells are, and how do different cells compare to each other in size. For this lab, I didn’t have a hypothesis, but I did learn many new things that I didn’t expect to learn. First of all, I learned that a salt crystal is significantly larger than even the largest of cells that we used in this experiment. And that says something because a salt crystal is very little, and our own human eyes can barely see it. This means that all of the cells in our body are so small that we probably have one or two billion cells in each and every one of us. The exact amounts also can vary dramatically depending on how big you are and how tall you are because the more mass we have means

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