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2.5 billion years ago hunger forced single cells into multicellular evolution: Study
The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how ...
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Microbes that live in New York City ponds, through a microscope
These rotating orbs are alive. Each one is a colony of hundreds of cells which work together to form the lifeform volvox. Volvox is a resident of Brooklyn. But it's just one of trillions of ...
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Image of the Day: Flock of Algae
Volvox barberi are multicellular green algae that form colonies of 10,000 to 50,000 cells. In an abstract presented at the March 2018 meeting of the American Physical Society by Ravi Balasubramanian, ...
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Volvox, Chlamydomonas, and the Evolution of Multicellularity
How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.