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The Tiny Rooms Inside You: Meet the Cell

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What is the smallest living thing in your body?

Here is a surprising fact: your body is made of about 37 trillion tiny living units called cells. That is 37,000,000,000,000 — more than all the stars you can see in the night sky! Cells are so small you need a microscope to see most of them. Every muscle you move, every thought you think, and every breath you take happens because your cells are working. But what is actually inside a cell? Let's find out.

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