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Module 5.2 · Topic 3
Module 5.2 · Topic 3
Slower than a microbe, faster than a plant cell — where animal cells actually sit
Plant cell suspension cultures, back in Module 5.1, doubled roughly a hundred times slower than microbes. Animal cells sit somewhere between those two extremes — genuinely closer to the microbial end than the plant cell end, but nowhere near as fast as bacteria.
A typical mammalian cell line in culture has a doubling time of roughly 18–24 hours. Compared to a bacterium (minutes) and a plant cell suspension culture (days), where does this actually place animal cells?
Compared to typical bacterial and plant cell suspension culture growth rates, mammalian animal cell growth is best described as:
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