• Question: What is the one thing on our body that doesn't grow??

    Asked by p3mohenna to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean on 21 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 21 Mar 2012:

      Some people say that the one part of your body that doesn’t grow is the eyeballs. However, human eyes grow dramatically in size from bith until about 15 to 16 years of age. The size of the human eye from front to back is about 17 millimeters(mm) at birth, and human eyes grow to about 21 mm by two years of age, and about 23 to 24 mm by the time you reach your teenage years.

      Due to the fact that we all start life as a single fertilized egg, every part of our body must grow at some point.

    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 21 Mar 2012:

      Is this a trick question? Tell us the answer! 🙂

      I know that girls are born with all their future egg cells ready. Although one of these does then develop each month.

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