multicellular


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consisting of many cells

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"Now we have an opportunity to re-imagine the steps that gave rise to the first animals, the underlying rules that turned single cells into multicellular animal life."
This shows that certain multicellular organisms in this primitive marine ecosystem were sophisticated enough to move through its mud, rich in organic matter.
The information could lead to new methods for controlling how multicellular constructs develop, and that could have applications in regenerative medicine, pharmaceutical testing and other research areas.
"This steroid biomarker is the first evidence that demosponges, and hence multicellular animals, were thriving in ancient seas at least as far back as 635 million years ago," Zumberge said.
For example, nematodes have been found living 1.3km below the Earth's surface, deeper than any other multicellular animal.
The second package is to construct multicellular box culvert across Bahunijhora, and the third being the development of land customs station.
The proposed dc-dc converter is based on the multicellular converter topology, and the boost chopper circuits with the bidirectional switches for cell converters are connected in IPOS.
If the origin of life is common on other worlds, the universe should be a cosmic zoo full of complex multicellular organisms.
They describe the development of a mathematical, biophysical model of tumor biology; a mathematical model designed to uncover connections between cellular apoptosis and hypoxia; how different integrin-dependent signals are generated during cell adhesion and by physical forces acting on cells; a mathematical model that uses measurements of patient testosterone levels to fit measured serum prostate antigen levels; the anomaly that the incidence for many cancers rises with age and then decreases; how mitchondrial dysfunction in cancer development excludes the cells from the ordered multicellular tissue system; and potential mechanisms of cancer prevention by weight control.
Multicellular organisms send messages between their cells and direct the cells to particular roles.
From the classification and organization of natural products and their formulas to stereochemistry and compounds, tables, definitions, bibliographic references, and 'skeleton' illustrations of these natural products provide chemical abstracts and descriptions of multicellular organizations.
EVOLUTION REVOLUTION: A scientific paper by a UO researcher has gone viral after anti- evolutionists objected to its theme: how life evolved from single-cell pond flotsam to multicellular organism.
cells can drown their individuality and abandon their free-living abilities in order to form a multicellular organism, which may be as simple as a flatworm, or as complicated as a giant sequoia, a whale, or a man.
In multicellular eukaryotes, the location of these origins within the genome changes during development, suggesting an epigenetic mechanism for origin specification.
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