How to Use unicellular in a Sentence

unicellular

adjective

• Red tides are caused by a type of unicellular algae known as a dinoflagellate.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2018
• Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2020
• Cells in multicellular bodies had to give up much of the freedom of the unicellular lifestyle.
  — Athena Aktipis, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
• The pre-Cambrian is the moment in the history of life when unicellular organisms were ready to take the next step and develop into complex life forms.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2016
• They can be found in plants, unicellular organisms, and inside neurons.
  — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• The creatures are widely considered to be the closest living unicellular relatives of animals: a sister twig on the tree of life that grew up alongside ours.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of shapes and functions of multicellular life today, from ants to pear trees to people.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2018
• The beetle is so tiny that it is dwarfed by some unicellular organisms, which are usually microscopic.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• And even today, there are far more unicellular organisms than multicellular ones on the planet.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2021
• Jennings, too, as early as the turn of the 20th century, sensed and believed that the behavioral workings of animals were often elaborations on systems already in place in unicellular life.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 28 May 2021
• Biophysically, this suggests that a unicellular organism can evolve a way to maintain the physical integrity of a larger size.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2021
• His results showed that the region seethed with mats of photosynthesizing, unicellular life forms long before the Cambrian explosion.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• Last year, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology reported that unicellular yeasts in their laboratory evolved a huge multicellular form in just two years.
  — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• Schwartzman and van Gestel both believe that a capacity for multicellularity evolved early in life’s history and is shared with bacteria’s ancient cousins, the archaea, which also seem unicellular.
  — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• The gulf between unicellular and multicellular life seems almost unbridgeable.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• In a 1998 article in the Annual Review of Microbiology, Shapiro argued that bacteria aren’t unicellular loners.
  — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• But how could habituation happen in unicellular organisms without neurons?
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 14 July 2018
• How did life make this spectacular leap from unicellular simplicity to multicellular complexity?
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2014

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