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C1 The scales of life

The constituent parts of our bodies vary greatly in size, from atom to organ. It is hard to imagine the relative sizes between our bodies, a cell and an atom, yet the human body is made up of around 100,000 cells. The size of a cell can range from that of a bacterium, the smallest existing cell, to the yolk of an ostrich egg, 50,000 times bigger.