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As my biology teacher put it: a cell is a factory in which workers are constantly kicking each other and workpieces around. Sometimes they bump into a workpiece
by aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
As my biology teacher put it: a cell is a factory in which workers are constantly kicking each other and workpieces around. Sometimes they bump into a workpiece they know what to do with, so they do some work and then throw it back into the crowd.
- dandare 8y agoAnd if I remember correctly, the elements in a cell may interact couple billion times per second.
- darkerside 8y agoReminds me of an old school trading floor
- hnick 8y agoHah, I just had a weird thought. I wonder if increasing motion/exercise speeds up intracellular action from wiggling it all around a bit and increasing the "random bump factor"? Or is the effect of macro movement negligible at a small scale?
- aaaaaaaaaaab 8y agoNope, but increasing temperature does speed up the chemical reactions within cells due to more vigorous motion of the constituent molecules. And this is true for not just biological processes but basically any chemical reaction: the higher the temperature, the faster the reaction.