Is any one cell inside the human body its own living organism?

Question

Essentially does each cell think on its own? How does it know how to interact with other cells? Does it have any sort of intelligence other than do the one job it has? How does it know to have that job?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Technically yes but also technically no.

I heard Hank Green say there was a dog that had its cancer mutate and become airborne. Literally 1 step away from transmissible to other dogs and it’s legit just DNA and cells from that dog.