I'm pretty sure that the cell will die ,but what do you think? (other than dying?)
b/c there are animals with two brains, so would having two nucleuss kill the cell?
b/c there are animals with two brains, so would having two nucleuss kill the cell?
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They're called multinucleated cells or syncitium.
Multinucleated cells are actually pretty common in the body - all skeletal muscles are built that way. This is because muscle cells are so long, and it would take too much time to move stuff around if there was only one guy handing out instructions (i.e., the nucleus). It's more efficient with several of them.
It would be like trying to run a restaurant with only one waiter. If it's big place, the guy will be constantly running around, trying to get to all the customers. But if there are three of them, they can spread out and each take care of a smaller area. And muscle cells are nothing if not efficient.
Multinucleated cells are actually pretty common in the body - all skeletal muscles are built that way. This is because muscle cells are so long, and it would take too much time to move stuff around if there was only one guy handing out instructions (i.e., the nucleus). It's more efficient with several of them.
It would be like trying to run a restaurant with only one waiter. If it's big place, the guy will be constantly running around, trying to get to all the customers. But if there are three of them, they can spread out and each take care of a smaller area. And muscle cells are nothing if not efficient.
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The cell would implode. The shock from the implosion will cause all the cells around it to spread out and then slowly come back together. Basically, if the cell was a skin cell it would blow your skin off, but you wouldn't feel pain and it would take about 30 seconds for your skin to come back together.
=) That's my guess.
=) That's my guess.
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that is actually how a cell multiplies. It makes copies of every other type of thing in the cell then splits in half to form 2 cells.
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Nuclei.