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20 May, 23:26

Why do multicellular organisms possess a large number of cells rather than having large sized cells?

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  1. 20 May, 23:30
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    Large sized cells would be very inefficient because the surface area to volume ratio in those cells would be very low. This means that they wouldn't be able to interact with their environment efficiently with large cells.
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