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This is not a test question.What will happen regarding the cell's response?

This is not a test question.What will happen regarding the cell's response?-example-1
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As the radius of a cell increases, its surface area increases as the square of its radius, but its volume increases as the cube of its radius (much more rapidly). Therefore, as a cell increases in size, its surface area-to-volume ratio decreases.

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