Saturday, October 31, 2009

Scale in biology

Ever wonder how big a red blood cell is compared to the flu virus? Or a single chromosome compared to an atom?

This is the coolest thing I've seen all week.
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2 comments:

  1. ElanorOctober 31, 2009 at 7:02:00 PM PDT

    Where do you find this stuff? It's AWESOME!! =)

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  2. authorNovember 1, 2009 at 5:56:00 AM PST

    I'm subscribed to makezine's RSS feed and they had it: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/the_long_zoom_of_cells.html. Even my girls loved it.

    You know you don't know much about biology when you have to click through 20 links in wikipedia just to figure out what a lysosome is. =)

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