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Its a matter of turnover. Your skin does many things but its main action is a "simple" mechanical barrier to the outside world. So unlike, for example, a liver cell which is producing many proteins and enzymes, a skin cell on the outer epidermal layer just has to sit tight and act tough against whatever comes in contact with it. Throughout the day that will be your clothes, soap, bacteria etc. Inevitably therefore your cells would get damaged incredibly frequently. So the surface of your skin actually consists of dead cells which can be easily rubbed off throughout the day thus preventing damage to the more sensitive bits underneath. So why is the lifetime of a skin cell so short?, because that way we dont end up with constant sores and damage all around our body.
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Skin cells, epithelial cells need to be renewed rather quickly in the skin, so they get into Mitosis phase in a short time; neurons generally do not reproduce, so they stay in interphase stage for a long time.
Tiger sharks only have pups in a lifetime because there lifetime is so short they only live about 10 years
Only plant cells have cell walls. So, no, human skin cells do not have cell walls.
I would think a skin cell because there are skin cells floating around every were so when they were testing it they would see a skin cell Cork Cell
it is so short because it wants to be
Yep, each skin cell is its own cell but they are so small thay the group together to look like one.
Muscle cells are very active relatively to the skin cell. So it has more mitochondria
The biggest cell would be the skin, because it is part of the body just not inside and it does not say the biggest cell inside the body so it would be the skin
Muscle cells are more active. So they have more
Muscle cells are very active. So they have more
The lifespan of an octopus is relatively short, especially in females where most die after a single reproductive cycle so yes they grow throughout their lifetime.
Skin cells are damaged faster than your liver cells so the divide more often
So, basically, the cell membrane is on the outside of the cells. Think of you skin, to the cell the cell membrane is its skin, this is the best way to picture it, but The cell membrane is also used by the cell to engulf or eat things... Good Luck
A eukaryotic cell has a nucleus, such as a plant cell or a skin cell. A prokaryotic cell is one that has no nucleus, such as bacteria. so the answer is bacteria...
About 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.
No, unicellular is defined as "one cell" so the organism is only made of one cell.
Onion skin is that filmy stuff between the layers of onions. It's just one cell thick, so it's idea for looking at through a microscope.
Probably not. Eventually it will, but that won't be in your lifetime, your kids lifetime, their kids lifetime, their kids lifetime, and so on. So again, probably not...
salamanders are AMPHIBIANS. not reptiles. even so, they do shed their skin several times during their lifetime - its more shows them as healthy and growing than close to death.
The nerve cell is very short and wide so there for is easier to transmit messages to the brain. :)
it depends what phone you have so see your phone company
a cell is a thing in our bodies that carry blood to all parts of the body. an organism is a big thing that holds blood. a cell can have a lifetime span and a death span, because cells and organisms, rely on each other. if one cell dies, its hard for another to reproduce and create more cells. so one cell dieing could be a heartbeat from death, and i strong cell could be a lifetime!
an egg cell of an organism is called a gamete which always has half the number of chromosome of a regular body cell (called somatic cell). So the answer wouldl be 14
because the skin is made up of cells which are microscopic(naked eye cant see only microscope)so if the cell get infected we open you up then take out the infected stuff so the reson is the skin cell sometimes get infected too so look at them and u well get an early indiction
stem cells are cells that have not deviated to become a specialized cell like a skin cell or heart cell. So they can be used to replaced damaged cells
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