Cell Size and Scale

[Idle Mind]

A very interesting interactive demonstration of scale on the biological level.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

I'm sure BillyT will find one that's more educational.

 

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Wow, great find! Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

This is another demonstration in the same fashion (although a bit more wide-ranging).

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

 

[iceaura]

According to that second link, living beings and their immediate context occupy at least ten full levels - 25% of the full logarithmic range.

That's quite a bit of the universe, from that point of view

 

[John Connellan]

A very interesting interactive demonstration of scale on the biological level.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

I'm sure BillyT will find one that's more educational.

That's pretty cool. Amazing how small rhinoviruses are!

 

[Walter L. Wagner]

Thanks for the links. I showed them to my boys (7 & 9) and they thought they were great.

 

[kira]

I have some bacteria colonies which I collected from my hair and face and grown on a type of agar. Is anyone interested? If so, please let me know, I will post it here (it's still in my camera and I'm a bit lazy to download it).

Edit: nevermind, I guess I am a bit off-topic!

 

[Orleander]

Holy Crap. There is really something called phage? I thought that was just Star Trek stuff.

Yeah Walter, like you, I'm gonna make sure my kids see this. :thumbsup: