How many cells in a human?

[John Woods]

FOF at FDACFSAN.BITNET writes:

>In response to the above question, I heave read 10 to the 13th and 10 to the
>fourteenth.  It is difficult to imagine that these are very hard numbers, but
>then I doubt that you need hard numbers.

I've heard these figures too, but in a slightly different way.  I was
told that there are 10^14 cells in the blob we call a human, but only
10^13 of those are human.  The other 90% are prokaryotic.  I got these
figures of a human anatomy person --- but they may have been pulling
my leg.

Maybe Gray's Anatomy would contain a guesstimate.

				... John
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