multicellular

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But microbes and maybe multicellular life isn't out of the question.

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consisting of many cells; "multicellular organisms"

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adjective

consisting of many cells; "multicellular organisms"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for multicellular.

adjective

consisting of many cells; "multicellular organisms"

Example sentences

But microbes and maybe multicellular life isn't out of the question.

These are core processes in multicellular organisms, so of course they unfold predictably.

No longer can we treat the cancer cells as part of our multicellular body, but as a separate, single celled population.

Actually, I stand corrected - not the multicellular life evolved once, but the eucaryotic cell.

I just skimmed this article, but it doesn't appear to make the interesting point that came to my mind when reading it, which is: in a multicellular organism, what the article calls a "cheater", we call a "cancer".

Intelegence is clearly adaptive when you consider humans have the widest habitat range of any multicellular organism on the planet.

According to an interesting book of a Russian paleontologist Kirill Eskov [1] there were a lot of "evolutionary tries" to create a multicellular life.

Who we are as humans is inextricably tied to our mammalian, primate, vertebrate and multicellular ancestry, and we know this by virtue of the wonders of phylogenetics.

Nick Lane's Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life - Covers the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, why it's such insanely chance event, why multicellular life depends on it, almost as an aside making a great argument that complex multicellular life is extremely rare in the universe.