Review
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2020.
World J Diabetes. May 15, 2020; 11(5): 165-181
Published online May 15, 2020. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v11.i5.165
Table 7 Thought experiment of multi-celled development of a single-celled, cube-shaped eukaryotic cell, which grows through cell division in a Cartesian coordinate system with the same speed in all three directions, and exchanges with its environment per unit-cell one heat unit per time unit[63]
Growth of cubic speciesNumber of unit cubesTotal cube
Required number of heat units to exchangeNumber of unit-cube surface planes
Original cube116
First generation8 (23)8 (23)24 (6 × 22)
Second generation27 (33)27 (33)54 (6 × 32)
Third generation64 (43)64 (43)96 (6 × 42)
Fourth generation125 (53)125 (53)150 (6 × 52)