• Question: hat will happen if a bone cell goes to the wrong place when it is in the mothers womb?

    Asked by iluvwilmas to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 20 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Marcus Wilson

      Marcus Wilson answered on 20 Nov 2012:

      I think it depends how late on it moves to the wrong place. If its fairly early during the babies growth then it might change to whatever the cells near it are. If its later then bevcaus eits not in the right place it sneses this by the surrounding cells adn might just die.

      Most of the time where weird organs are growing in the wrong place ( like a tooth in a foot) its not a cell out of place but in fact a whole sperate person! Its when a twin that hasnt grown properly and fused back togethr with their sibling!

    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 20 Nov 2012:

      I completely agree with Marcus, a single bone cell which finds itself in the wrong place in the body will just not be able to interact properly with the cells around it. It will not find a suitable place to sit in the tissue, and it will not be looked after by communicating with the other cells, and so it will die and not cause a problem to the growing baby.

    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 20 Nov 2012:

      Did you know that there is a process in our body called “programmed cell death” or “apoptosis” ? It is a protective mechanism that our cells can do to protect the organism. So in our bodies if a cell grows incorrectly it is able to commit suicide in order to help us survive 🙂 it happens all the time, every single day and this can happen in the womb too.

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