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Bio paper 1 q help pls

Please could someone help me with this
When the surface area to volume ratio is small, then there is not much surface area for substances to diffuse across but there are lots of cells inside that need the substances. not sure about the calculation but for the most part this is it
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Original post by momothedumpling
When the surface area to volume ratio is small, then there is not much surface area for substances to diffuse across but there are lots of cells inside that need the substances. not sure about the calculation but for the most part this is it

Ah so would shape x have the smaller SA to vol ratio?
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Original post by yesss1
Ah so would shape x have the smaller SA to vol ratio?

I think shape x would have a large SA to Vol ratio ie a lot of SA relative to it's volume.

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