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- adjective Alternative spelling of
multicellular .
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There's also an International Barcode of Life project assembling DNA barcodes for all multi-cellular organisms. cientists intend to use such libraries to study biodiversity on a planet-wide level, just as different types of meteorological data are pooled to predict weather.
Marine Census Shows Vast Diversity of Sea Life Gautam Naik 2010
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Located in the deep subsurface biosphere, these nematoda including a new species known as Halicephalobus mephisto, are the deepest multi-cellular organisms found on Earth.
Worms From Hell: Scientists Discover Multicellular Organisms Deep In Earth's Surface 2011
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So a. 003% change requires roughly 30,000 generations in a multi-cellular organism.
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A working hypothesis has been that the first cells (uni-cellular life forms) were front-loaded with information that would facilitate the evolution of multi-cellular life.
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So a. 003% change in 5 cell types, in a multi-cellular organism, requires roughly 150,000 generations (if everything goes right).
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ID guy: Can any of thise researchers show that multi-cellular metazoans evolved from those single-celled organism?
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Although cellular functions are individually definable there is no theory citing a threshhold level of multi-cellular interactions at which consciousness kicks in and below which it does not exist.
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The fact that virtually all multi-cellular organisms have TLRs indicates how critical they are to survival.
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There isn't anything in any of those research papers that shows that single-celled organisms can "evolve" into multi-cellular metazoans.
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Can any of thise researchers show that multi-cellular metazoans evolved from those single-celled organism?
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