MadSci Network: General Biology
Query:

Re: Does a chiwawa have fewer or smaller cells compared to a great dane?

Date: Wed Feb 10 16:23:29 2010
Posted By: Royce Moncur, Staff, General Science and Environment, Outside Input School Services
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 1265133949.Gb
Message:

Without doing any research at all...  Yes... A smaller dog will have less 
cells. The similar organs are larger in a larger animal and therefore 
made of a larger number of cells. 

I can't see any reason why a larger dog would have larger individual 
cells. 


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