How Small Is Euplotes? 100 µm Compared to Scale | Magnitudle

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Euplotes (100 µm) drawn to scale beside a human hair (70 µm) and a human egg cell (115 µm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Human hair (70 µm), Euplotes (100 µm) and Human egg cell (115 µm).

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How big is that, really?

About 87% of the width of a human egg cell
About 1.4× the width of a human hair
About 5× the width of a cloud droplet
About 5 would fit across a grain of sand
About 13× the width of a red blood cell

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Facts about Euplotes

Euplotes uses fused bundles of cilia called cirri to crawl along surfaces like tiny legs.

Source: Protist Information Server, Euplotes

Micro World

Name	Size	Compared with Euplotes
Ascaris lumbricoides Egg	60 µm	0.6×
Human Cheek Epithelial Cell	60 µm	0.6×
Pine Pollen Grain	70 µm	0.7×
Human Adipocyte	100 µm	same size
Euplotes	100 µm	this page
Human Cardiomyocyte	100 µm	same size
Human Smooth Muscle Cell	100 µm	same size
Onion Epidermal Cell	100 µm	same size
Didinium	150 µm	1.5×
Coscinodiscus Diatom	150 µm	1.5×

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Which is bigger: Euplotes or Pine Pollen Grain?

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