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Growth due to an increase in cell number is called?
Growth that is due to an increase in cell number results from an increased rate of mitotic cell division and is termed hyperplasia. Consequently, growth of a tissue or organ due to an increase in cell size is termed hypertrophy.
What is a term that refers to a decrease in cell size?
Atrophy- refers to a decrease in cell size.
Is it true that a cell's size increases its amount of DNA also increases?
Yes, The larger a cell becomes, the more demands the cell places on its DNA. In addition, a larger cell is less efficient in moving nutrients and waste materials across the cell membrane. Hope this helped! (:
What is it called whan you increase in muscle fiber size?
Hypertrophy
What happens to a animal cell when it grows?
The cells increase in size and number.
What is it called when a cell increase in size or number?
Hypertrophy
Growth due to an increase in cell number is called?
Growth that is due to an increase in cell number results from an increased rate of mitotic cell division and is termed hyperplasia. Consequently, growth of a tissue or organ due to an increase in cell size is termed hypertrophy.
What makes a cell increase in size faster the cell membrane or the cell contents?
a virus
What is the size of a heart cell?
they increase in size as we get older, so we can never tell.
How organs grow?
Organisms grow by cell division or mitosis which causes increase in number of cells , and then by increase in size of cell .
What is a term that refers to a decrease in cell size?
Atrophy- refers to a decrease in cell size.
Does a cell increase in size and usually makes copies for its DNA?
True.When a cells size increases,it can't transfer enough nutrients throughout the cell if the cell size is big.So it makes copies of its DNA
The kind of cell division associated with an increase in size and weight of an organism is what?
Mitosis.
What would happen if a cell was as big as a basketball?
If a cell were as big as a basketball, organelles would have to increase in size to be proportionate to the actual cell. -Josh
What happens during g1phase?
Cell increase in size and synthesize new protein and organelles
What happens during the g1phase?
Cell increase in size and synthesize new protein and organelles
Growth of many -celled organisms is due to an increase in what?
It is due to the increase in the amount of cells. The growth of single-celled organisms is due to the increase in the size of the cell.
