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A cell is exposed to a substance that prevents it from dividing The cell becomes larger and larger This situation?
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As an object expands in size, it's volume increases at a rate much much faster than the rate at which its surface area increases. Since the surface area is vital to exchange of key molecules, a cell that theoretically kept increasing in size would eventually lose the ability to acquire nutrition and expel wastes, among other things that must traverse the membrane. It would become metabolically unsustainable.
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∙ 13y agoPresumably it doesn't divide. (There are a number of things that could prevent mitosis; if you had a more specific answer in mind, then you need a more specific question.)
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