which is the biggest, and what are their relative sizes?

Question

which is bigger out of a virus, prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic cell?

what are their relative sizes?

this is needed for biology homework!

Answer 1

Great Question! The Biggest of these 3 entities is the Eukaryotic cells. Eukaryotic Cells are often at least 10X bigger than prokaryotic cells. In fact, they are so much bigger that at least twice in evolutionary history a Eukaryotic Cell absorbed a Prokaryotic cell and that Prokaryotic cell became an Organelle! This is how we got the mitochondria.

A prokaryotic cell is many many times bigger than a virus.

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