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the human body blueprint How do Organelles grow?
from 2023 Biology Edition
by scienceholic
An organelle is a cellular structure only found in eukaryotic cells. Within these cells, they have one or more specific jobs to perform. Initially, it was a puzzle to biologists as to how cells could control the size and number of organelles. However, recent experiments demonstrate that eukaryotic cells can control the average variation of size in an organelle As these new experiments show that organelle sizes follow a specific general measure that scientists have theoretically predicted, it is
Author: Ashlyn Tsang
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Editors: Emily Chen and Hwi-On Lee
Artist: Jade Li suggested that organelles grow in random bursts from a limiting-pool of building blocks.
Depending on the environments and surroundings, organelles must adapt to allow cells to shrink or grow The size changes of an organelle must be maintained with certain limits Previously,