The cell theory describes the idea that all living organisms are made of cells that have a particular set of features, such as being surrounded by a cell membrane.
The options below describe some atypical examples that don't posses all the features described by the cell theory.
Which of the examples below does conform to the cell theory?
Striated muscle fibres possess multiple nuclei and can grow up to 300 mm in length.
Skin cells replicate so quickly that our full body of skin cells die and are regenerated every 27 days
Aseptate fungal hypae do not possess septa (end walls between the cell) meaning that the cells are multinucleated with a shared cytoplasm.
Giant algae (Acetabularia) are unicellular but can be up to 100 mm long with just one nucleus and a complex structure.
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