Dd1 is quite a way into her biology homework make a 3-D model of a cell(!) It's quite a fine object so far eggbox lid for the cell wall, lined with a nice plastic membrane, yellow bouncy ball for the nucleus and a selection of items she's created from a polymer science kit someone gave her last christmas for the variole etc.
Following on from this, and watching the Harvard Cell animation that was posted recently, she has now asked the very reasonable question: Why, if all animal and plant cells have specific structures as shown in her textbook, can they produce differentiated body parts and have different functions as shown in the video?
Please save me from embarrassing myself by admitting I don't have a clue? [slightly pleading emoticon]
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Biology homework question -- martianbishop or other biologists?
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frogs · 07/11/2006 13:36
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