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Bacteria never form any sort of grouping that resembles a multicelled organism with an internal division of labor among its cells. Think about the attributes of prokaryotic bacterial cells and the eukaryotic cells of which all multicellular organisms are comprised. Develop some hypotheses explaining why only eukaryotic cells have evolved into multicellular organisms

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Here are some attributes of prokaryotes and eukaryotes and relevant hypotheses
regarding multicellular organism evolution.

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Multicellular organisms require more energy than
prokaryotes as they contain much more cells with
various functions.

Attribute
Prokaryotes have no internal cytoskeleton while
eukaryotes do

Hypothesis
Having a cytoskeleton could provide a mean to ...

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