unicellular
/yoo-nuh-sel-yuh-ler/US // ˌyu nəˈsɛl yə lər //UK // (ˌjuːnɪˈsɛljʊlə) //
单细胞,单细胞的,單細胞,单胞
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having or consisting of a single cell.
Examples
The first living organisms formed their hierarchies thus: individual unicellular, or plastide; group of plastides or meride.
The multicellular organism was a colony of unicellular organisms, and its life was a sum of the lives of its constituent elements.
They appertain to cells not yet differentiated, to the unicellular organisms which occupy the first stages of life.
Weismann deduces from this a radical distinction between the unicellular and the multicellular organisms.
In the most primitive kinds of the unicellular protists we find the phenomena of death and regeneration in the simplest form.
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