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Cell Growth
/sɛl ɡroʊθ/noun
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Cell growth is the biological process by which individual cells increase in size, multiply through division, or accumulate mass to support organism development. This essential mechanism drives tissue repair and organismal growth in healthy contexts, but when unregulated, it can contribute to diseases like cancer in modern medical challenges.
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Incredibly, a single human fertilized egg undergoes about 40 rounds of cell growth and division to form a 100-trillion-cell adult body, showcasing the exponential power of this process. This means that from one cell, your entire body is built through a series of divisions that could theoretically fill multiple Olympic-sized swimming pools with cells.
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