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Multicellular

adjective
1.
Consisting of many cells.





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"Multicellular" Quotes from Famous Books



... examine the behavior of the various kinds of cells of which the various multicellular ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price
... time that mankind was undertaking this knowledge of himself is particularly emphasized by the unrest and aberrance of human behavior now startling and disturbing the whole world. If mankind does not take up this self study as Trotter has said, Nature may tire of her experiment man, that complex multicellular gregarious animal who is unable to protect himself even from a simple unicellular organism, and may sweep him from her work-table to make room for one more effort of her tireless and patient curiosity. Psychology should be taught to every doctor ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various
... subordinate to the "other-regarding" instincts. As soon as this sub-ordination is ignored in practice, regress takes the place of progress. The transit, we are told, from the unicellular to the multicellular organism cannot be explained by individualism, but implies a diminution of the competitive, an increase of the social and subordinative tendency. The argument from economics to biology and back again, is said to be nearing exposure; the "progress of the ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
... protoplasm arises the first organic cell. For a long time our planet was inhabited solely by such Protista or single-celled primitive creatures. From coenobia or social unions of these afterwards arose the lowest histones, multicellular ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel
... each cell of a multicellular organism, reproduce themselves by division or fission. Each cell originates from another cell in the following manner: the cell divides in the center as well as its nucleus, and in this way forms two cells which grow by absorbing by endosmosis (filtration) the nutritive juices which surround ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel


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