Question

Arrange in order from Largest in size to Smallest in Size.

Type your predicted order of the strips from largest to smallest into the text box and explain:

What strategies you used to arrive at this prediction.Which items are you most sure about their relative size.Which items are you least sure about their relative size.

Biology Size and Scale Strips

A Water Molecule

A Glucose Molecule

An HIV virus

An E. coli bacterium Cell

A Mitochondrion

A Human Egg Cell

A Skin Cell Nucleus

A Carbon Atom

An Amoeba Cell

A Red Blood Cell

A Ribosome

Answer 1

Answer:- Glucose is 6 times larger than a water molecule, the carbon atom is smaller than glucose molecule because glucose molecule has six carbon atoms, E.coli bacteria is bigger than HIV-Virus and amoeba cell is bigger than E-coli as well as HIV-Virus. Thus we can arrange them in decreasing order as Human cell is greater than the amoeba cell which is greater than human RBC which is, in turn, greater than  Skin Cell Nucleus which in turn is greater than Mitochondrion which is in turn greater than E. coli which is in turn greater than HIV VIRUS which is in turn greater than a ribosome which is greater than ribosome which is in turn greater than a glucose molecule which is greater than a water molecule which is greater than carbon atom.

A human egg cell> an amoeba > a human red blood cell > A Skin Cell Nucleus > A Mitochondrion > An E. coli bacterium Cell > an HIV VIRUS > A Ribosome > A Glucose Molecule > A water molecule > A carbon atom