when human cells multiply, where do the additional atoms come from?

Subject: when human cells multiply, where do the additional atoms come from?

Date: Wed May 14 10:17:37 2003
Posted by James Freeman
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Cell Biology
ID: 1052925457.Cb

Message:


when an embryo is growing, its cells divide and multiply. Where do the 
new/additional atoms come from ? i.e. if you change from one cell to two cells, 
you now have twice the amount of matter?

Re: when human cells multiply, where do the additional atoms come from?

Current Queue | Current Queue for Cell Biology | Cell Biology archives

Try the links in the MadSci Library for more information on Cell Biology.