Re: Cells bags of water? (was You are mostly bacteria ...)

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In a message dated 9/16/04 1:53:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

lazlo75501@... writes:

Yeah, but bacteria are also ugly bags of mostly water too!

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~~~~~> Actually, a bag of water is a really bad analogy for a cell, because

solids are mostly solids, and the water is polarized and oriented in a resting

cell, much like the water in a bowl of jello.

The standard textbook version of cell anatomy/physiology follows the

bag-of-water approach, but Gilbert Ling shows it to be wrong in _Life at the

Cell and

Below Cell Level: The Hidden History of a Fundamental Revolution in Biology._

I own both this and Alberts, et al., _Molecular Biology of the Cell_, which

is considered the " Bible " of cell biology. I highly recommend reading Ling's

book.

Chris