• Question: If cells never existed , would we still exist or not?

    Asked by Izzy.K to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Jayne Ede

      Jayne Ede answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Simplistically, no. We’re made of cells, so without them, we can’t exist as we are! Life without cells however is an interesting thought… Viruses aren’t made of cells, but they’re on a strange line between living and not-living, if I remember from my school lessons!

      Perhaps somewhere out in the Universe, there is life that doesn’t require cells…. I wonder what it looks like!

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I don’t think so, because of what cells are: they’re a separation of the inside from the outside, and that means that the inside can be alive while the outside isn’t. Without cells, either everything is alive or nothing is, and I don’t think either of those things is what you mean by us existing.

    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      As the others have said no we wouldn’t. We are basically one massive cell made up of different kinds of smaller cells and they arrange themselves to keep us alive.

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