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    What is the difference between a cellular structure and a molecular structure?

    I recently read this description, used in regards to claiming that our bodies are made with a cellular structure. Can someone elaborate on what this would mean in comparison to a molecular structure, i.e. what is a molecular structure and how would it be different from a cellular structure?
    So it is an order of magnitude. That helps to clarify a bit. I ask the question because obviously our bodies are made of cells, i.e. cellular structure. But cells are also made of molecules, so what I fail to understand is how could a body be molecular but not cellular.

    Like you say, if it is simlpy an order of magnitude, it makes more sense.

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    The difference is about 5 orders of magnitude...

    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cell_Biology/Introduction/Cell_size

    I think you're missing the description. But I don't see why you need to put "claiming" in there - the statement that our bodies have a cellular structure is relatively uncontroversial. Cells are made of molecules - or made of simpler structures, which I won't pretend to understand, because I'm not a biologist - which in turn are made of molecules.

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