We forget the power of the single-celled organism. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Medical Miracles?] Reference
The amoeba, of course, were single-celled, despite their size. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
It is the best known of the single-celled animals, or protozoa. From Wordnik.com. [amoeba] Reference
All life on this planet has evolved from a single-celled organism. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: October 2005 Archives] Reference
You mean to tell me that that thing is a giant single-celled animal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Immunity Syndrome] Reference
This now becomes a calculus of human lives, albeit single-celled ones. From Wordnik.com. [Do they really believe that abortion is murder?] Reference
Singer, Isaac Bashevis single-celled singular sinking fund sink or swim. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: Ruhr Valley to sitting pretty] Reference
If it bore life at all, would it be nothing but single-celled organisms?. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Fortunately for your eyeballs, it only works on single-celled organisms. From Wordnik.com. [What's Inside: Bausch and Lomb ReNu] Reference
The kingdom of Monera or Prokaryotae is composed of single-celled prokaryotes. From Wordnik.com. [prokaryotes] Reference
But the colony was fractionally more efficient than its single-celled ancestor. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Even single-celled animals like bacteria and fungi breathe oxygen and give off heat. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Most cells in the human body, and all single-celled organisms, reproduce through mitosis. From Wordnik.com. [mitosis] Reference
Imagine a device that could release single-celled bionanobots programed for specific tasks. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Cyborgs] Reference
Incredibly weird, inch-wide single-celled creatures discovered rolling across the sea floor. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Wired] Reference
Instead, they target the single-celled organisms that can be found in livestock and poultry. From Wordnik.com. [Tyson Dealt Blow on No-Antibiotic Label] Reference
All multicelled organisms are eukaryotes, as is one superkingdom of single-celled organisms. From Wordnik.com. [eukaryote] Reference
Life in the form of single-celled algae was present when the Earth was 3.5 billion years old. From Wordnik.com. [Earth, evolution of] Reference
The only things left alive in an area as big as 8,000 square miles are single-celled organisms. From Wordnik.com. [David Ropeik: The Oil Spill Catastrophe: Biggest Ever? Not Close.] Reference
Water is where everything starts, from our single-celled ancestors to our great-great-grandkids. From Wordnik.com. [Anita Diamant: Let Us Begin: Celebrating the Mikveh Water's Power to Renew] Reference
It stood out sharply when he focused -- the white, jellyfish shape of a single-celled leucocyte. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
It took a further billion years for these bacterial forms to evolve into single-celled eukaryotes. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Like some single-celled creature, people near the door lurched after him, and he broke into a near trot. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams From My Father]
Diatoms are single-celled (unicellular) organisms that live as individuals or in groups called colonies. From Wordnik.com. [Diatomite] Reference
Protists are eukaryotic, possessing a membrane-bound nucleus, but are single-celled or acellular organisms. From Wordnik.com. [Marine microbes] Reference
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
The individual cells that make up our complex, sophisticated bodies owe quite a bit to single-celled organisms. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Life on Mars] Reference
But it's here where single-celled creatures like bacteria and other microbes got together to make the first bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Edge: Finding Our Inner Fish] Reference
It is useful to think of the creature who reviews Black Hole resumes as an amoeba -- you know, a single-celled animal. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Ryan: Skirting the Resume Black Hole] Reference
These beasts, called meiofauna, are the smallest of multicellular organisms, about the size of a (single-celled) ameba. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling Sharks] Reference
Gene splicing is often used in industry to allow single-celled organisms to produce useful products, such as human insulin. From Wordnik.com. [gene splicing] Reference
The causative agents in humans are four species of Plasmodium protozoa (single-celled parasites) - P. falciparum, P. vivax. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
A single-celled, protoplasmic organism, which is constantly changing its form by protrusions and withdrawals of its substance. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
A single-celled organism, complex as it is, doesn't know that it is one and therefore doesn't know it needs to improve, evolve. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
It lets players create creatures, then influence the beasties' evolution from single-celled organisms to space-exploring monsters. From Wordnik.com. [Maxis Shows Off Spore's Creature Creator] Reference
The characteristics of algae -- the microscopic single-celled organisms are tiny biological factories -- may help make that goal a reality. From Wordnik.com. [Scum Power] Reference
In one witty sequence, single-celled creatures were shown climbing a spiral staircase, recognizable at once as a representation of the DNA molecule. From Wordnik.com. [The Songs of Distant Earth]
One billion years ago, the Earth existed, but at best had very primitive, single-celled life, and some simple multicelled life, living in its oceans. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Animals simpler than the flatworms, such as the coelenterates, sponges, and single-celled creatures, generally have either radial symmetry or no marked symmetry at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
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