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multicellular

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1. multicellular - Noun

2. multicellular - Adjective

3. multicellular - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.

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Three revolutions mark the history of life on earth. The first was the origin of life itself... The second... was the origin of multicellular organisms... The origin of human consciousness... was the third... Life became aware of itself, and began to transform the world of nature to its own ends. Richard Leakey

Development of an organism from a single germ cell into a multicellular entity is a self-organizing system from any point of view and I wish to contend that this self-organizing system is a subsystem of the self-organizing system called 'evolution. Gordon Pask

multicellular organisms Source: Internet

All the cells in a multicellular organism derive from a single cell, differentiating into variant cell types in response to external and intercellular signals and gradually establishing different patterns of gene expression to create different behaviors. Source: Internet

Algae In some multicellular green algae ( Ulva lactuca is one example), red algae and brown algae sporophytes and gametophytes may be externally indistinguishable (isomorphic). Source: Internet

All multicellular organisms are colonized to some degree by extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationship with the host. Source: Internet

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