Question

How does a ratio of surface area to volume describe a cell.

Answer 1

for me, the important point is that the surface area to the volume ratio gets smaller as the cell gets larger.

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Answer 2

As a cell grows bigger, its internal volume enlarges and the cell membrane expands. Unfortunately, the volume increases more rapidly than does the surface area, and so the relative amount of surface area available to pass materials to a unit volume of the cell steadily decreases.

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