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multicellular

[ UK /mˌʌltɪsˈɛljʊlɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. consisting of many cells
    multicellular organisms

How To Use multicellular In A Sentence

  • A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
  • This character is common to all animals as the result of their being descended from a common multicellular ancestor that also possessed this character.
  • In this study, the phototactic behavior in the spheroidal, multicellular volvocine green alga Volvox rousseletii (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) was analyzed. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Equally, the higher animals and plants themselves emerged when cells joined in multicellular organisms. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus, for instance, all the cells in a multicellular organism represent one clone derived from the fertilized egg.
  • Cell divisions cleave the egg, like cutting a cake, and result in a multicellular structure.
  • The phenotype of cancer invasion depends on composition and density of the ECM, and can vary from amoeboid blebbing, mesenchymal fibroblast-like motility and multicellular streaming or chain migration PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • 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. Another predictable argument against front-loading
  • Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy. Phytoplankton
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