The Body Is Made Up of Many Different Cell Types

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Multiple Choice

The body is made up of many different cell types, from small circular red blood cells to the elongated smooth muscle cells 20X its size. Why is there such variation in size and shape?

• A)Different cell sizes are due to nutritional differences.
• B)Different variations in size and shape allow differentiated cell types to perform unique functions.
• C)Variations in cell shape and size are due to chromosomal differences between cells.
• D)Cell size and shape does not vary among cell types.

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Definitions:

Middle 50%

A statistical term referring to the interquartile range, which is the range between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile of a data set.

Population Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of a set of values in a population, indicating how spread out the data points are from the population mean.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the data into two equal halves.