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Can there be multicellular prokaryotes?

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Differentiation. The cells of the body specialise at different tasks. In most cases this is terminal differentiation - i.e once the cell has specialised it cannot return to it's unspecialise state. Are there some bacteria that can do all that? read more

<<As to whether there are multicellular prokaryotes, the standard answer is No, but there is a lot of evidence that some bacterial species can aggregate together and divide labor so that the "colony" is working more efficiently. read more

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