Sentences with phrase «multicellular life forms»

Because extracellular matrix is the basis for existence of multicellular life forms.

Later, cell - cell adhesion made possible the evolution of multicellular life forms.

This inherent complexity arising from manifold levels of organization within multicellular life forms requires that genome maintenance, the DNA damage response (DDR) and defense strategies are tightly linked and highly coordinated processes.

The Ediacarans were some of the earliest multicellular life forms.

At 2.1 billion years old, this fossil could be the earliest known multicellular life form.

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i think your forgetting that if scientist found a single cell life form that that would be a living fully developed organism and a fetus is a multicellular organism and isn't fully developed yet

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

The unique ecosystems of Cuatro Cienegas may yield insights into what sparked the Cambrian transition, a pivotal time about 540 million years ago when simple, single - celled life developed into a wide variety of multicellular forms.

The detailed research of functioning of sponge tissues brings the scientists closer to understanding of the general functioning of multicellular organisms and processes that led to the transition from unicellular to multicellular forms of life.

These fossils are approximately 2 billion years old and according to Emma Hammarlund they represent some very early life forms, that maybe tried to evolve into some kind of multicellular organism, but didn't succeed.

On an evolutionary note, co-activators CBP and p300 are found only in multicellular organisms, and not more simple one - celled life forms.