• Question: What is size of an animal cell

    Asked by anon-274952 on 14 Dec 2020.
    • Photo: Sarah Smythe

      Sarah Smythe answered on 14 Dec 2020:

      To see an animal cell we need to use a microscope. They can be 10 – 30 micrometres in size – that’s 1000 times smaller than a centimetre!!

    • Photo: Jacob Wildfire

      Jacob Wildfire answered on 14 Dec 2020:

      For reference, that’s less than half as thick as a human hair!

    • Photo: Jordan Warner

      Jordan Warner answered on 15 Dec 2020:

      Other scientists have already said the typical sizes, but there are some interesting exceptions – for example, some nerve cells are over a metre long (although still microscopically thin) and egg cells can be 0.12 millimeters across, much larger than any other cell in your body, since they have to split into many smaller cells to start making a new human!

Comments