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[muhl-tee-sel-yuh-ler, muhl-tahy-]

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adjective

composed of several or many cells.

Origin:
1855–60; multi- + cellular

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The event was the merger of two primitive bacterial-type cells into a eukaryote, the type of cell in all multicellular organisms.

It is one of the marvels of evolution that they are able to do this, and so allow the development of multicellular creatures.

Today multicellular species may top the food chain but they remain dependent upon microbes for survival.

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The event was the merger of two primitive bacterial-type cells into a eukaryote, the type of cell in all multicellular organisms.

It is one of the marvels of evolution that they are able to do this, and so allow the development of multicellular creatures.

Today multicellular species may top the food chain but they remain dependent upon microbes for survival.

Bacterial cells are fundamentally different to the cells of multicellular animals such as humans.

In multicellular animals this is achieved by a vascular system.

Some species gather by the thousands to form multicellular bodies that can crawl.

And they may get better thanks to living cells: the multicellular organism called brown algae.

But all these proposals represent little more than multicellular prejudice.

Every large multicellular organism is a planet for billions of micro-organisms.

Some aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism.

Cells of multicellular organisms are degenerate and fail to capture the true wonder of cell biology.

Single-celled protozoa had to cooperate to give rise to the first multicellular animals.

Humans in communities serve a similar role to cells in a multicellular creature.

But she needs a multicellular riot, nothing less than a revolution, in order to have complicated feelings.

So much for the common sense idea that multicellular things eat unicellular things, no exceptions.

Nothing does more for the survival of our species and other multicellular species that that one single act.

Scientists are eager to understand how transitions from a unicellular to multicellular lifestyle were accomplished.

There was no selective pressure and new multicellular organisms could explore new forms of biological complexity.

CO1 is so essential that every multicellular organism has.

It is the first time we've had a picture of the gene set needed to run a multicellular organism''.

Eukaryotic cells with internal structures had appeared, but multicellular creatures were scarcely a blip in the census.

Single cells merge into multicellular organisms of specialized parts.

The genesis of aging was the division of labor in the first multicellular animals between the germ cells and the body cells.

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Word Origin & History

multicellular

1857, from multi- + cellular.

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Medical Dictionary

multicellular mul·ti·cel·lu·lar (mŭl'tē-sěl'yə-lər, -tī-)
adj.
Having or consisting of many cells.

mul'ti·cel'lu·lar'i·ty (-lār'ĭ-tē) n.

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Science Dictionary

multicellular

(mŭl'tē-sěl'yə-lər) Pronunciation Key
Having or consisting of many cells. Compare unicellular.

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