Sentences with phrase «multicellular eukaryotic»

The early development of the multicellular eukaryotic organisms is disputed due to the scarcity of fossils older than 1 billion years.

«It's by far the most high - fidelity multicellular eukaryotic genome to date,» says Jeffrey Dangl, a molecular geneticist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Large multicellular eukaryotic organisms became common much later, about 600 million years ago, near the transition to the Phanerozoic Era, the «time of visible life.»

Not exact matches

As natural selection kicked in, these bacteria graudally evolved into eukaryotic cells, then small colonies, then multicellular organsims, then pre-Cambrian biota, then crusaceans, jellyfish and, later, fish.

It allows eukaryotic cells to evolve into multicellular organisms that have remarkable structural and functional variation.

All eukaryotic cells — the kind that make up all multicellular life — owe their existence to the two creatures that underwent this fateful merger.