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These creatures, Borgonie was eager to explain to me, are many-celled and have both a nervous system and a digestive tract.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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These creatures, Borgonie was eager to explain to me, are many-celled and have both a nervous system and a digestive tract.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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These creatures, Borgonie was eager to explain to me, are many-celled and have both a nervous system and a digestive tract.
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Specialized egg and sperm cells became necessary around a billion years ago, when many-celled organisms evolved and this simple transfer of DNA was no longer possible.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Specialized egg and sperm cells became necessary around a billion years ago, when many-celled organisms evolved and this simple transfer of DNA was no longer possible.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They milled restlessly in the steep-sided bowl of land before her, and at first she perceived them only as the many-celled organism of an army.
War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987
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In other words, the starting point in the development of the frog is a _single biological unit_; this divides and its products redivide to constitute the many-celled blastula and the double-walled gastrula.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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Yet all the many-celled organisms that we are so accustomed to regard as individuals are really communities, demonstrating the existence and partial antithesis of the great laws of egoism and altruism, which are traceable even down to
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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We now reach the realm of the true many-celled animals, or Metazoa, where the biological units are combined to form an organic association displaying many more resemblances to a human society.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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We come next to a simple many-celled animal like the polyp _Hydra_, or a jellyfish.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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