what kind of cells do ants have
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I can't speak from experience in Ant cell size, however:
Cell size is limited by how much surface area a cell has. Think of a tennis ball, you can imagine the inside of this ball to have a corresponding surface size to internal volume, unfortunately this is not a 1:1 ratio. A basketball may have many times the internal volume of a tennis ball, but the surface area is only 2 or 3 times as large.
Cells work the same way, the larger a cells size the more nutrients it needs to function, and since nutrients can only enter via the cell membrane, and the cell membrane does not increase equally as volume does, there is an upper limit to how large a cell can be before it cannot take in enough nutrients to support its size.
Thus, cells tend not to be proportional to the organism they are part of - this should answer your blue whale question. Some have different shapes, some have different functions and so can be different sizes as the energy requirement is less, but they do have limits. A human heart cell is going to be of similar size to a whale heart cell because of this. It's important to recognise that type of cell matters to overall size and the variation is considerable even within the same organism.
Cell size is limited by how much surface area a cell has. Think of a tennis ball, you can imagine the inside of this ball to have a corresponding surface size to internal volume, unfortunately this is not a 1:1 ratio. A basketball may have many times the internal volume of a tennis ball, but the surface area is only 2 or 3 times as large.
Cells work the same way, the larger a cells size the more nutrients it needs to function, and since nutrients can only enter via the cell membrane, and the cell membrane does not increase equally as volume does, there is an upper limit to how large a cell can be before it cannot take in enough nutrients to support its size.
Thus, cells tend not to be proportional to the organism they are part of - this should answer your blue whale question. Some have different shapes, some have different functions and so can be different sizes as the energy requirement is less, but they do have limits. A human heart cell is going to be of similar size to a whale heart cell because of this. It's important to recognise that type of cell matters to overall size and the variation is considerable even within the same organism.
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Ants have Eukaryotic cells like an all animals possess the ants cells have a cell membrane like all the animal cells have. ants are multicellular organisms
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