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Why do nerve cells have long fibers whereas red blood cells are thin and disklike?
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∙ 11y ago
Nerve cells have to be long enough to extend from where they are located in the body, the hands and feet for example, to the spinal chord or brain. Some nerve cells in a giraffe may be ten feet long. Others may be very short.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoThey have fibres to send messages from the brain throughout the whole body. Don't get confused with fibers and fibres. They are extremely different. Anyways, the reason why nerve cells have long fibers are because they have to send messages from the brain to other parts of the human body......
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∙ 11y agoThe red blood cells are thin, but rounded, like a bowl for example, to collect more oxygen with more surface area and also its easy to move around in the body. The nerve cell is long and has a tree like structure because it is needed to branch out and transport signals over long distances in a fast amount of time.
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∙ 7y agoThe function of the cells and other parts of your body is due to their forms. A red blood cell could not function as it is meant to do if it was long like a nerve cells and axons. Form Follows Function.
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∙ 15y agoWith that shape, nerve cells can transmit messages faster.
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∙ 12y agobecause to send immediately messages from one part of the body to the brain & vice versa...
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Nerve cells are long because from where they are located in the body to where they extend to, every slitest touch has to be felt everywhere around the human body.
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In a human nerve cell, branches stick off it. Thats why it is so big/long.
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∙ 11y agobecause i dont know
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∙ 11y agoto transmit signals
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