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I am trying to figure out if the protists is engaged in more complex activities than the multicellular organism? I am looking at the difference

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This is an important and interesting question. I work with protists in the laboratory. and know intimately that they are very complex. The genus I work with is Euplotes, which looks kind of like a little cockroach -it can walk around on surfaces with bundles of fused cilia that look just like little legs. They can also swim through the water, ingest food in the form of bacteria and ...

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