Timeline for A three foot cell?
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 18:03 | comment | added | ckersch | The surface area to volume issue is only present if the cell increases size in three dimensions while retaining the same shape. A three foot diameter pancake-shaped cell or a ball of filaments wouldn't run into the same problem. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 23:35 | comment | added | Damon | Also consider Laplace's law. The membrane must grow twice as fast in thickness as compared to the radius to keep the tensile force constant. That, or the cell will burst. Of course a very thick membrane is kind of pointless if survival is a goal. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 19:40 | comment | added | Schwern | THANK YOU for bringing up the surface-area-to-volume ratio problem. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 18:52 | history | edited | Samuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2016 at 18:32 | history | answered | Samuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |