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Why might a blood cell have a diffrent shape than a muscle cell?
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∙ 11y ago
Blood cells' function is to carry oxygen to all of the cells of the body, and to do this, it has hemoglobin, which allows the blood cells to accept and carry oxygen. The hemoglobin is only effective when the blood cell is a certain shape. Muscle cells, however, don't carry oxygen (duh), so they are a more tube-like shape to allow the organism to move, flex, and change position. If they were disc-shaped like red blood cells, the organism would have trouble moving at all. If red blood cells were tube-shaped, the hemoglobin could not perform properly, and the organism would die.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agodifferent functions, blood cells need to have round edges to flow efficiently through the system, nerve cells are specially shaped depending on their function and their location in the body. Some are meant to transmit signals from the extremities, around shape would wast space and be inefficient, a long stringy shape is more efficient.
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∙ 11y agobecause each cell has a different function
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Why might a blood cell have a different shape than a muscle?
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Why might a blood cell have a different shape than a muscle cell?
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