Sizes
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Cell's Sizes
Mycoplasma genitalium
- Smallest free-living cell is Mycoplasma genitalium with about the size of 0.2 to 0.3 µ m.
Escherichia coli
- E. coli
- About the size of 1µ m by 3 µ m.
Human
Human Red Blood cells
- 8 µ m.
Ovum
- Largest cell on the human body.
- size is around 1000 µ m in diameter.
Sperm Cell
- Smallest cell on the human body.
Amoeba proteus
- Largest cell with a metabolism.
- Size of about 1-5mm in length.
- Common name for it is Giant Amoeba.
Ostrich
- The ostrich's egg is the largest cell in the world.