In simple terms, what is the function of a cell?

Answer 1

A cell is the protoplasmic building block of living matter. There are one celled plants and animals and there are multicelled plants and animals. The cell is like a brick in the latter many of them forming the whole structure in the aggregate.

Answer 2

Like bricks or wood form the struction of a building, the cell is the smallest building block of a living creature whether it be a single-celled creature like a bacterium or a complex structure like a human being. The cell provides not only the framework but the "blueprint", in the form of DNA, to build more.

Answer 3

In simple terms, a cell's function is to burn all the nutriments that it gets of what you eat and to transform them into energy... that way, you can live!

Answer 4

The function of cells is to live and reproduce to build tissues. These tissues make organs; the organs that give oxygen to our bodies, the organs that digest our food

Answer 5

Simple terms? It's like describing the universe in three words.

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Answer 6

To exist!
It can take in nutrients, convert these nutrients into energy, carry out specialized functions, and reproduce as necessary. Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these activities.

Answer 7

Metabolism