Question

Type your predicted order of the strips from largest to smallest into the text box for this homework assignment. AND explain: What strategies you used to arrive at this prediction. Which items are you most sure about their relative size. Which items are you least sure about their relative size. ( at least 250 words).

Biology Size and Scale Strips

A Water Molecule

A Glucose Molecule

An HIV virus

An E. coli bacterium Cell

A Mitochondrion

A Human Egg Cell

A Skin Cell Nucleus

A Carbon Atom

An Amoeba Cell

A Red Blood Cell

A Ribosome

Answer 1

a glucose molecule is large from a water molecule. it is as large as 6 times from water molecule.

a carbon atom is smaller than glucose because in glucose there are 6 carbon atom.

e.coli are much bigger than hiv virus and amoeba cell is also bigger than both e.coli and HIV virus. HIV virus are 120 nm in size.

So we can arrenge this in the way largest to smallest

A human egg cell> an amoeba cell > a human red blood cell > A Skin Cell Nucleus > A Mitochondrion > An E. coli bacterium Cell > an HIV VIRUS > A Ribosome > A Glucose Molecule > A water molecule > A carbon atom

So A human egg cell is largest, combination of atoms and smallest one is a carbon atom.