Would you describe cells as simple structures? Why or why not?

Question

Im not really getting my biology homework, I know I should do it all on my own but I did like 25 of the questions I just don't get 5 of them. Help nice people? thank you.

Answer 1

Yes and No.
They are simple structures because they are the basic buiding blocks of our body.
They are not in the sense that they have many smaller, functioning structures withing them called organelles.

Answer 2

You can look at this question in two ways.

1. The cell is the basic unit of function and structure in living things. That's what the cell theory says. So, it's the simplest part of an organism.
2. Cells of eukaryotes (protists, fungi, plants, animals) have membrane-bound nuclei and complex organelles. These cells have complicated and fantastically detailed membrane systems, cytoskeletons, metabolic pathways, and so on.

Answer 3

No!
Look at even a bacterium -- there are about thousands of different catalyzed reactions that can take place in there to keep the bacterium going, growing, reproducing. It's amazing that having all those chemicals in one "soup" in there actually works out without them interfering with each other all the time.

Answer 4

i'm uncertain what you imply by potential of "straight forward platforms" yet i'm assuming no, they don't seem to be. this is probable because of fact they are too complicated to be straight forward... ? Lol, cells are created from a great variety of components so i'm guessing they are easily no longer straight forward platforms.

Answer 5

no. cells are anything but simple structures! you know what cells are made of? loads of tinier organelles working as one being to accomplish the work of the particular cell. so my awnser is no, they aren't.

Answer 6

cells are quite simple....phospholipid-bilayer.......but the organelles inside the cytoplasm is what makes them complex....break it down by their jobs....make flash cards...