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What is the diameter of a cell?

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Queee

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15y ago

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it depends on the cell type, but cells are on the order of hundreds of micrometers

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14y ago

The typical animal cell is between 10 and 100 micro meters. However, muscle cells can be as large as 100 um by 30 cm!

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11y ago

Approx. 30-50 micrometers. Can be bigger or smaller than this.

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13y ago

The average size of a plant cell is 10-100 micrometers. That's 0.01 - 0.1 millimeters

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The largest plant cell is of acetabularia ( algae ). It measures 9-10 cm in length.

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14y ago

10 to 50 micrometers.

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10 to 50 micrometers

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14y ago

much smaller thn the head of a pin

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Roger Weitzel

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100 microns

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