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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

2499.373 - 2525.872 Chris Kempes

One is this organism has these huge internal storage vacuoles. So it has these big internal membranes that it uses to just store inorganic stuff, likely to be able to grow fast later. So it sort of hoards rare stuff and then uses it later. Um, if you remove all of that and you say, let's just talk about the active sort of metabolic portion of the cell, you're still bigger than our limit.

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