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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or consisting of many cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having several cells; consisting of several cells; many-celled: as, a multicellular organism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology, of an organism That has many
cells , oftendifferentiated infunction . - noun Such an organism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of many cells
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Examples
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Guts: Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, however these became specialized in multicellular organisms.
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Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, but specialized in multicellular organisms.
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As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms.
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As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms.
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As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms.
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The more precursors we find, and the more specific they seem to be — so that their functions in multicellular organisms would not be easily replaced by other components — the more difficult it is to accept a non-teleological origin.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008
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IOW, if a gene vital in multicellular life forms is present and highly conserved in single-cell life forms (in which it isn't expressed or perform any other vital function), we could conclude that the gene was front-loaded into the genome by a designer of the original genome with the expectation that multicellular life forms would evolve when that gene does get expressed.
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IOW, if a gene vital in multicellular life forms is present and highly conserved in single-cell life forms (in which it isn't expressed or perform any other vital function), we could conclude that the gene was front-loaded into the genome by a designer of the original genome with the expectation that multicellular life forms would evolve when that gene does get expressed.
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For example, this is true for developmental biology and for analysis of the functions of signalling pathways in multicellular organisms.
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Since such a creature as the rabbit is formed through the co-operation of a vast multitude of cells, it is called multicellular; the amoeba, on the other hand, is unicellular.
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