Multicellularity

The major reason for multicellularity is specialization. First, there's sexual specialization. Bacteria's major form of reproduction fission. For multicellular organisms, the gametes specialize into sperm and egg. Also, prokaryotes ...

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Yes: they have a cytoskeleton. Multicellularity could never develop in the absence of a cytoskeleton...

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I was wondering earlier today why multicellularity has only evolved among eukaryotes, especially since bacteria are known to congregate in specific patterns much like the protists that are believed to be the ancestors of multicellular organisms. ...

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... state, and it makes perfect sense to me that bacteria could have been the first multicellular life, by forming these aggregates. the genes for multicellularity are relatively few, and some bacteria already exhibit a primitive "tissue like" multicellularity, i.e. myxobacteria, which ...

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... useless without chloroplasts cranking out the oxygen, but both processes occur in non-nucleated cells as well as nucleated cells. If you think multicellularity is important, then nuclei are important. I think that, with explanations that show that you understand the contribution each one makes, ...

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