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Assume all bacteria in this problem are spherical. If a cell of bacterium X has a volume of 4 µm^3 and a cell of bacterium Y has twice the diameter of bacterium X, the volume of a cell of bacterium Y is.....?
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This is less of a biology problem and more of a math problem. The volume is 32. The equation to find the volume of a sphere is 4/3(pi)r^3. Because the relationship is cubic, the base root is 2^3, or 8. Therefore 4x8=32.