How To Use Multicellular In A Sentence
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A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
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This character is common to all animals as the result of their being descended from a common multicellular ancestor that also possessed this character.
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In this study, the phototactic behavior in the spheroidal, multicellular volvocine green alga Volvox rousseletii (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) was analyzed.
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Equally, the higher animals and plants themselves emerged when cells joined in multicellular organisms.
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Thus, for instance, all the cells in a multicellular organism represent one clone derived from the fertilized egg.
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Cell divisions cleave the egg, like cutting a cake, and result in a multicellular structure.
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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
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As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms.
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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
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Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy.
Phytoplankton
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For example, this is true for developmental biology and for analysis of the functions of signalling pathways in multicellular organisms.
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Finally, all representatives of section Polystachya examined were found to possess multicellular, uniseriate, moniliform trichomes that fragment to form unicellular units.
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Characteristic multicellular, branched hairs were observed on the reverse of the tepals and upon the pedicellate ovary of all species.
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The authors base this claim on the well known fact several groups of multicellular animals, for example, bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, nematodes and arthropods, have representatives that can survive extreme desiccation for long periods.
We are going to freeze dry you all!
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The evolution of multicellular animals from unicellular protists is one of the key transitions of life on Earth.
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Theoretical arguments also indicate that multicellular neural systems can enter domains of chaotic behavior.
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Lastly, with respect to karyokinesis, although it is true that the microscope has in comparatively recent years displayed this apparently important distinction between unicellular and multicellular organisms, two considerations have here to be supplied.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
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Flowering plants are multicellular organisms where cell division plays a significant role in growth and development.
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Spurs occur on the legs of many insects and differ from setae in being of multicellular origin.
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Farmer and Habura point out that protistan evolution had begun well before then and provided the genomic diversity from which multicellular organisms arose.
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This is the basis of the most fundamental DPM, cell adhesion, which is the sine-qua-non of multicellularity.
The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual
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Our results also indicate how recently evolved multicellular organisms adapted the phototactic capabilities of their unicellular ancestors to multicellular life.
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The majority of flowering plants produce multicellular trichomes.
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In multicellular plants fluxes to and from roots via xylem and phloem further complicate the situation.
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The two main domains are the “single-celled organisms” and the “multicellular organisms.”
Modern Science in the Bible
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Flowering plants are multicellular organisms where cell division plays a significant role in growth and development.
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What caused the delay of over a billion years in the evolution of multicellular animals after the evolution of single cell eukaryotes?
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Haeckel noted that multicellular animal organisms follow a common pattern in early embryological development.
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The zooplankton include chordate jellyfishes known as ‘salps,’ which are among the fastest-growing multicellular organisms on the planet.
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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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Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, but specialized in multicellular organisms.
Biomolecular Networks
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This, in turn, set the stage for the origin of eukaryotes (from the very tightly packed denizens of the stromatolite mats), which eventually set the stage for multicellularity.
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Phototactic responses are essential for these flagellates because they need to orientate themselves to receive sufficient light for photosynthesis, but how does a multicellular organism accomplish phototaxis without any known direct communication among cells?
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So the monophylic clade of metazoa contains only multicellular liveforms, this also defines the mentioned outgroups of taxa from protozoa and prokaryota.
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Multicellular organisms continually defend themselves against parasitization by potentially harmful microbes.
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It is clear from both the fossil record and the ecology of oceans and epicontinental shallow water today that continental shelves were and are necessary for multicellularity.
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There was one life form, called a "doughball," that was a non-differentiated multicellular organism that looked like a ball of dough, and rolled through the Venusian forest consuming all that it touched and growing until it was large enough, and then it would fission.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Multicellular organisms such as animals and plants could then be viewed as communities of cells.
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It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism.
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In the pinworm soup there were squirming iridescent protozoa, single-celled giants that were almost as big as the multicellular worms.
Parasite Rex
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Because three-dimensional multicellular spheroids have many characteristics in common with tumors in vivo, they are ideally suited to basic therapeutic studies in which the effects of numerous parameters are investigated.
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Hide was a misnomer, of course, since the scrapes reported that the creature's tegument wasn't any more multicellular than the rest of it.
Doctor’s Orders
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In the whole plant, multicellular compartmentation is required for alkaloid biosynthesis.
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In the next few days it divides on a daily basis, becoming a multicellular organism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Multicellular organisms grow through both proliferation and growth of their individual cells.
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Because multicellularity is an experiment that's been run many times in the history of life, scientists may be able to discover some universal rules for how it comes about.
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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.
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Peirce SM, Skalak TC, Davidson L, Marsden M, et al. (2004) Multicellular computer simulation of morphogenesis: blastocoel roof thinning and matrix assembly in Xenopus laevis.
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Second, the existence of unicellular life for one or two billion years without the formation of multicellular life wouldn't be a problem on Mars because it obviously was not a problem on Earth.
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One of my favorite biologists, Michael Lynch, had a very interesting thing to say about the evolution of multicellularity recently: that it may have come about via nonadaptive means.
Another predictable argument against front-loading
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What genetic change allowed multicellular animals to come into existence remains obscure.
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Eukaryote --- A unicellular or multicellular organism in which the cells have a nucleus with a nuclear membrane and other specialized characteristics. See also prokaryote.
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According to this gastraea-theory there was originally in all the multicellular animals ONE ORGAN with the same structure and function.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The syncytial blastoderm in Drosophila show that the nuclei can independently divide and later form a multicellular embryo.
Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus
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Many multicellular trichomes are glandular, developing a terminal gland which may secrete a variety of compounds, such as alkaloids to deter or poison predators.
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To understand why, you need to consider how life comes to an end in multicellular organisms.
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(Side note: using the kind of embarrassingly bad logic that Behe has roped you into, this observation alone proves that Darwinism operates with such blinding speed and efficiency that only the regular intervention by the Intelligent Designer keeps the bacteria from obliterating all multicellular life within a few decades.)
Behe's Test, Take 2
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The asexual phase in the life cycle of this fungus involves the formation of multicellular structures called conidiophores that produce chains of uninucleate spores called conidia.
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What genetic change allowed multicellular animals to come into existence remains obscure.
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The more precursors we find, and the more specific they seem to be — so that their functions in multicellular organisms would not be easily replaced by other components — the more difficult it is to accept a non-teleological origin.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle
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These beasts, called meiofauna, are the smallest of multicellular organisms, about the size of a (single-celled) ameba.
Traveling Sharks
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multicellular organisms
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The species are dimorphic, living as hyphal saprobes in the desert soil or as unicellular pathogens that convert into multicellular sporulating spherules in the mammalian host.
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We are multicellular organisms that regenerate some of our cells continuously.
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Biological pathways are contingent, so other worlds could have invented flexible cells with endoskeleton suitable for multicellular organization (eykaryotes), as opposed to rigid exoskeletal cells (prokaryotes), right away.
Where Could Humans Survive in our Solar System? | Universe Today
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But it took nearly three billion years for multicellular organisms to come on the scene.
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Cell divisions cleave the egg, like cutting a cake, and result in a multicellular structure.
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Yet they are responsible for a multicellular organism with a complex central nervous system, and the human genome looks remarkably similar to this.
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Apoptosis is a ubiquitous process by which multicellular organisms are able to maintain a balance between cell proliferation and death.
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We also found 38 genes for the bryophyte P. patens and only one gene in the multicellular chlorophyte alga
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Theoretical arguments also indicate that multicellular neural systems can enter domains of chaotic behavior.
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At the multicellular level, tropic responses of the shoots and roots of flowering plants have been extensively studied.
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Guts: Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, however these became specialized in multicellular organisms.
Biomolecular Networks
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Glandular trichomes can be found as unicellular, multicellular, and stalked structures.
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Choanoflagellates show no hint of multicellularity, but they have 23 genes for cadherin proteins, about the same as the fruit fly or the mouse.
An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism
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These things have huge internal complexity in their cells as well as bodies that are often multicellular.
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Its genome was the first of any multicellular organism to be sequenced, in 1998.
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The capacity of somatic cells to evolve is an atavism, as this property is lost in the transition of uni- to multicellularity.
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The dark phosphate bed of Weng'an contains a well-preserved, diverse floral assemblage including multicellular thallophytes, acritarchs, and cyanophytes.
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The series of mitotic cell divisions that produces a blastula from a fertilized ovum. It is the basis of the multicellularity of complex organisms.
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To increase their chances of success, the microbial payloads should contain a variety of organisms with various environmental tolerances, and hardy multicellular organisms such as rotifer eggs to jumpstart higher evolution.
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Man is simply not an animal": an animal is biologically defined as a heterotrophic multicellular eukaryote that lacks cell walls.
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Finally, the Chordata are placed with all the other phyla of living creatures that are multicellular and "heterotrophic" (meaning they have to eat), into a "kingdom," Animalia.
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The capacity of somatic cells to evolve is an atavism, as this property is lost in the transition of uni- to multicellularity.
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Even multicellular chromists, like brown algae and water molds, produce flagellated zoospores of this type.
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These beasts, called meiofauna, are the smallest of multicellular organisms, about the size of a (single-celled) ameba.
Traveling Sharks
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Myxobacteria provide an excellent system for studying prokaryotic development because they can initiate multicellular morphogenesis.
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Since such a creature as the rabbit is formed through the co-operation of a vast multitude of cells, it is called multicellular; the amoeba, on the other hand, is unicellular.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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This consilient approach is not reason for writers to begin every biography with the emergence of multicellular organisms, or to explain the rise of Impressionism starting with the physics of light.
Mind Wide Open
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Many multicellular organisms have a germ that is segregated early in the development.
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Not only are cells in multicellular organisms specialized, they are precisely arrayed in particular spatial patterns.
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The evolution of multicellularity therefore qualifies as an "autocatalytic" process; once set in motion, it drives itself exponentially from then on.
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