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Investigate about multicellularity on Earth and write an essay about it.
QUESTIONS
1. If cells can live just fine as single organisms (such as E. coli, Paramecium, or Amoeba), why did cells begin to attach to each other and form these conglomerations we call multicellular organisms?
2. We humans, for example, are an amass of trillions of cells all working together to form this entity we call a "human." Why multicellularity happened if life could run fine with unicellular beings?
3. Were we "expecting" multicellularity to inevitably form on this planet?
4. How can a multicellular being survive and get maintained with so many cells "packed" together?
5. Why would anyone like many cells attached together instead of single ones floating around? Is multicellularity complicated and cell singleness simpler?
6. If so, why would nature/evolution would like to "complicate" things?
7. Wouldn't anything flow towards the "path of less resistance" and simplify things instead of complicating them? Are there benefits to multicellularity?
8. What about costs to it? How come cells can attach/glue to each other so perfectly in the first place?
9. Can multicellularity increase communication among cells? Why would that be good, or bad?