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· The sequence of photographs shows the length scales associated with biological systems. Each photograph has a characteristic scale an order of magnitude different from its neighbors. The square outline in each picture is magnified by a factor of 10 in the following photograph.

From: Gary Stix, "Little Big Science," Scientific American 285 # 3 (2001) 32.


 

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