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Quick Lab PG 275 SA To V
Quick Lab PG 275 SA To V
Quick Lab PG 275 SA To V
0.01 cm 3 cm 4 cm 5cm 6 cm
Surface Area =
6 x l2
Volume =
l x l x l = l3
Surface area to
Volume Ratio
Simplest Ratio
(1) Describe the function of a cell membrane and its relationship to what happens within a cell.
(2) How does the surface area change when a large cell divides into smaller cells that have the same total
volume?
(3) What happens to the effectiveness of the processes of diffusion and osmosis, as a cell gets larger? As a
cell gets smaller?
(4) So why are cells—even of the largest organism—( a Blue Whale) so small?