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Physical sizes of different organisms provide an intuitive assessment over their complexity (Table 1.2.). The comparison between the extremes of eukaryotes can be particularly important for a good view of nonlinearity that exists between entropy and size, of which, we will discuss about later. This subchapter briefly discusses the physical sizes of different unicellular and multicellular eukaryotic organisms.

Table 1.2 Extreme sizes of unicellular organisms.

Unicellular organisms	Eukaryotes (μm)	Prokaryotes (μm)
Min	0.8	0.15
Max	300 000	1400

The table shows the minimum and maximum physical dimensions of unicellular organisms in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The values represent averages of the measurements published in the scientific literature and are presented in micrometers.