Re: [HAPS-L] most complex cell

["Ken Saladin" <ksaladin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:17 PM 10/7/2006, you wrote:


An interesting proto-question but presently undefined. "Complexity" needs to
be defined in a way that permits observations to decide the issue, of
course. I don't know how to approach that since it is a mathematical notion
fundamentally, of which I know very little (My math ed stopped at a graduate
course in "diffyQ").

Nonetheless, I offer Paramecium tetraurelia as a viable candidate. Has two
distinct nuclei (one for sexual reproduction, and the other for the rest of
the week). 1000-fold polyploidy! Does all that any organism does inside a
single cell 0.1 mm long.



Paramecium is a great candidate for a cellular complexity prize, but Marilyn's original question was on the most complex human cell. 

Ken


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