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The pluricellular organism is nothing more nor less than a later development, a confederated association of unicellular organisms.
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Those consisting of but one cell are termed unicellular; those comprising more than one cell are called pluricellular.
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Let us now consider pluricellular organisms and consider them particularly from the standpoint of organic evolution.
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As the result of such differentiation, the pluricellular organism, as it comes ultimately to be evolved, is composed of many different kinds of cells.
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Among pluricellular organisms man is of course supreme.
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If in its extension to contain the new formations within it the embryo-sac remains narrow, endosperm formation proceeds upon the lines of a cell-division, but in wide embryo-sacs the endosperm is first of all formed as a layer of naked cells around the wall of the sac, and only gradually acquires a pluricellular character, forming
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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In most pluricellular beings it is usually more or less 1. 5% of the genome.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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By the sure help of the three great empirical "records of creation," palaeontology, comparative anatomy, and ontogeny, the history of descent now leads us on step by step from the oldest Metazoa, the simplest pluricellular animals, up to man. [
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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