[BIO206H5] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (43 pages long)
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This one is ready to undergo cell division. It"s about to cut itself thru binary fission. 10^30 single-celled organisms, and they represent the vast majority of the diversity of the earth. As said, these organisms go thru cell division. In a day you can have 2^72 doubles with this cell! This is one of the reasons why pathogenic microorganisms are so effective. They can rapidly increase their numbers, as they do this they produce toxins, which is where all the problems (pathology) comes from. You can see the nucleus is getting ready to divide and separate into two. We all used to look like that at one point. Unlike e- coli, tho, we become a mutli-cellular organism. We are distinct from e. coli in that not only are we a large macroscopic organism, but we also have many genetic attributes (our organ systems, our facial features, etc) that are encoded in this single cell!
