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cells-Kristel and Jesse

Submitted by ktan on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 2:09pm.

Hypothesis: Our hypothesis is that the size of the organism has no correlation with the size of the cells.  We believe this will be true because the size of an organism is dependent on its complexity, which involves layers of many cells, not a limited number of large cells.  Therefore, simple organisms could have larger cells than large organisms.

The following are measured in micrometers:

Uterus: 5
Pine Stem: 40
Jejunum: 17.5
Buttercup: 20
Gonium (4-cell colony): 100
Lumbricus (cross-section): 10
moss: 170

Conclusion: Using our data collected by measuring the different specimens, we found that the cell size and the size of the specimen appear to have no correlation, as we hypothesized.

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