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What are two main reasons why cells divide rather than continue to grow indefinitely?
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∙ 12y ago
The larger the cell becomes the more trouble the cell has moving enough nutrients and wastes across the membrane because the membrane can't expand wide enough to fit the inside volume. Like on a balloon, you blow it up too big and it pops because the outer surface can't support the inside contents.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 9y ago"Surface Area to Volume Ratio: As a cell grows larger, the volume inside the cell increases at a faster rate than the surface area (cell membrane). Therefore, the cell can't exchange nutrients and wastes as easily.
The nucleus capacity: The nucleus can only control so much. For example, large cells usually have multiple nuclei to control their functions."
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∙ 11y ago1. The cell is dead
2. The cell, in its process of maturation, removes the parts that would be needed for cell division, e.g. mammalian erythrocytes which lose the nucleus
3. Contact inhibition. The cell is surrounded by neighbors, there's nowhere for daughter cells to grow into, and the cell is of a type and in a tissue where contact inhibition takes place
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∙ 12y agoWound repair, development, growth, maintenance (replacement of dead cells), reproduction. Cells actually do not grow indefinitely. It is a highly regulated process. Cells growing indefinitely without regulation causes tumors and cancer.
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∙ 9y agoCells will grow only for a certain time and then they will stop. They have what are called boundaries which they will not normally grow beyond. If they over grow their boundaries they become cancer-like cells which will grow and grow.
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∙ 13y agoSurface to Volume Ratio and the Organelle to Cytoplasm ratio.
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