This page tries to portray how big various sizes are relative to each other. Only the smallest sizes have been depicted. Remember: one thousand nanometers (nm) equals one micrometer, or micron, (µm); one thousand microns equals one millimeter (mm).

The sizes were obtained from Biology by Neil Campbell.

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