What is the maximal possible size of a single cell organism? Why can’t a single cell be the size of a coin for example?
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Say you have a factory, do you want one mega factory that only has one manufacturing machine, one HR department, one parking lot and one breakroom to share with everyone or have two smaller factories each with their own set of amenities and half the amount of workers each
The bigger the cell gets, the more work it has to do to move stuff from one side to the other, remove trash, supply energy and maintain itself. It just makes more energetic sense to have two smaller independent cells that can talk to each other instead.
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