Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
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Chapter 3.1, Problem 1CYP
Summary Introduction
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The reason for the presence of trillion of cells instead of only one cell in humans.
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Multicellular organisms are those which have more than one cell while in unicellular organisms there is a single cell. In unicellular or single-celled organisms all the work is done by the single cell. It can do the simple task easily but in case of complex, it fails.
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Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
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