multicellular organisms.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

As any of these authors will agree, the HGT's role is insignificant in multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, but specialized in multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biomolecular Networks] Reference

For example, this is true for developmental biology and for analysis of the functions of signalling pathways in multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002] Reference

Guts: Many unicellular eukaryotes were multifunctional cells, doing many different things, however these became specialized in multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biomolecular Networks] Reference

I'm saying that these are all multicellular castings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shore Leave] Reference

Republicans love babies as long as they are multicellular.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY-26: Will Child-Predator Foe Laura Bush Honor Reynolds At Luncheon?] Reference

A multicellular organism rooted in the rocky ground, doing nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Most are unicellular, but some prokaryotes are multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hate, Life, the Universe, and Everything] Reference

In multicellular animals, however, there is an added dimension to growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

It took a further 500 million years for multicellular organisms to evolve.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Bacteria ruled the Earth for a billion years before multicellular life arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [nessus Diary Entry] Reference

Such programs could not have existed when the simplest multicellular organisms first arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual] Reference

In the long run this can be expected to kill off almost all multicellular life on the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The largest organism on Earth, and probably the oldest multicellular organism, is named Pando.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth’s Elder] Reference

The road carried us to a skywire between them, with an elevator operated by multicellular robots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

In all multicellular life will have existed on Earth for less than 10% of the life of the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [nessus Diary Entry] Reference

Being multicellular rather than colonial is the character that generally defines metazoan animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms] Reference

It had been assumed that the body of the multicellular animal or plant was made of independent units.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

Marine invertebrates are the most diverse and abundant group of multicellular organisms in the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary] Reference

Equally remarkable is how bacteria band together and behave like sophisticated, multicellular animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Inside Bacteria, a Germ of Human Personality] Reference

And, later, the first multicellular animals, then the first complex creatures, in the sea, on the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurassic Park]

For example, a multicellular organism like a human being is more highly organized than a single-celled amoeba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sustainomics and sustainable development] Reference

Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phytoplankton] Reference

Just as trees (and people), as multicellular organisms, consist of generations off cells being created and shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Existing] Reference

Sponges are among the simplest of multicellular animals, and they lack internal organs, including a nervous system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strikes Back (of molecules and men)] Reference

One might almost regard the individual cell of a multicellular organism as the parasite of the organism as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

These beasts, called meiofauna, are the smallest of multicellular organisms, about the size of a (single-celled) ameba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Sharks] Reference

This means that the substance is found in all multicellular animals except the very simplest: the sponges and jellyfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Even one-celled animals may have light-sensitive areas, but the true elaboration of course comes in multicellular animals, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

In standard taxonomic practice, individual protists are distinguished from colonies, and colonies from multicellular organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms] Reference

They work quite well, in suitable environments, so why don't we see them (at least in largish, multicellular animals) on Earth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The multicellular organism was a colony of unicellular organisms, and its life was a sum of the lives of its constituent elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Their discovery now suggests that multicellular life existed some 200 million years earlier than scientists had previously thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multicellular 'Cookie' Fossils Found in Gabon] Reference

The unicellular organism can by its very nature transform itself into a multicellular organism only by the method of cell-division.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But we must proceed to examine the behavior of the various kinds of cells of which the various multicellular organisms are composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference

Mass extinction of multicellular life will result in profound loss of animal and plant biodiversity, and microbes will reign supreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeremy Jacquot: Our Oceans' Long Goodbye] Reference

We are, every single multicellular organism (MCO), in a very real sense, nothing more than a colony of genetically identical bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth’s Elder] Reference

Thus, it is a group of organisms united more by what they are not - multicellular - than by ancestry or common ecological characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine microbes] Reference