• Question: How many cells are in the human body

    Asked by Elliemay.simmonds to Robert on 10 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Robert Lees

      Robert Lees answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      Hi Elliemay,

      An adult can have up to 100,000 billion cells to make up their body! And we have a lot of ‘good’ bacteria inside us also, which help us digest food and fight off other nasty bacteria – they outnumber our own cells by 10 TIMES!! But they’re a lot smaller, so that’s why you don’t look like half bacteria, half human 😀

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