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Use the models that you created in Lesson 2, Lab 1 to help you answer the following question.

Compare the surface area to volume ratio of a large cell to that of a small cell.


Why does the ratio of surface area to volume increase with the decrease in cell size?


AA larger cell has more surface area than volume.
BA smaller cell has more surface area than volume.
CA smaller cell has more volume than surface area.
DA smaller cell has an equal ratio of surface area to volume

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BA smaller cell has more surface area than volume. This allows for more reactions to occur across the various membranes of the cell.
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B

Explanation:

This is a question more about understanding ratios than understanding cells.

A surface area to volume ratio (S/V) in a size-decreasing cell would increase due to a more significant loss in volume that in surface area. In reality, both decrease (surface area AND volume), but as we are talking about a ratio, this one would go up due to a more dramatic decrease in volume.

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