Surface area to volume ratio of cells | Cell structure and function | AP Biology | Khan Academy

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Seeing that the surface area to volume ratio of cells generally decreases as cells get larger, making the exchange of resources, waster and heat more and more difficult.

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Gigantothermy for a temperature maintaining program anyone? Sounds as if it'd work quite well to me- proviso that you can get big enough to preserve your internal temperature from sheer size; but you'd have to be pretty darn big for that to come into play.

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as the volume of the cell increases, as the cell gets bigger, we have less surface area making exchanges of resources difficult