Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or consisting of one cell; one-celled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of a single cell, as some infusorians and some cryptogams; pertaining to or exhibiting only a single cell, as most of the protozoan animals and protophytic plants, and the undeveloped ova of all metazoan animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or consisting of, but a single cell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Describing any
microorganism that has a singlecell - noun A single-celled
organism ; aunicell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or consisting of a single cell
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Examples
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Cytosine deamination, controlled variation and the immunological functions are nicely linked and analogous systems in unicellular organisms can be found.
Controlled Pathways 2008
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Cytosine deamination, controlled variation and the immunological functions are nicely linked and analogous systems in unicellular organisms can be found.
Controlled Pathways 2008
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So Mike has been cataloging a number of components that have one use in unicellular life, and a different use in multicellular life, to show that front loaded designs wouldn't necessarily be lost in the future.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008
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For example purposeful behavior surely occurred in unicellular eukaryotic ancestors of modern organisms like paramecia and euglena who perform rather complex adaptive movements.
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A prediction of front-loading is genes required for multicellularity being discovered in unicellular organisms, and I have previously suggested looking at amoebae, one of the oldest eukaryotes.
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A prediction of front-loading is genes required for multicellularity being discovered in unicellular organisms, and I have previously suggested looking at amoebae, one of the oldest eukaryotes.
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As one who believes that mutations in unicellular organisms are not random this proposal is particularly intriguing.
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Have RAs or related molecules been discovered in unicellular organisms?
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"Have RAs or related molecules been discovered in unicellular organisms?"
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If we can't find RAs or related molecules (that they could have evolved from) in unicellular organisms, then it would seem to point to at least a second design event, wouldn't it?
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