Word: multicellular
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Dilettantes were big 400 years ago, but today's dilettantes lack acceptance. Leaderless, mocked and misunderstood, they are pariahs sniffing at the edges of a multicellular society...
...Ninety percent of all plants live in the ocean; 90% of all multicellular animals are insects...
...helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing (i.e., Flying Wing) as the plane of the future, and had flown a prototype. After a spell working for Douglas Aircraft as a vice president bossing the El Segundo plant, Northrop, with the help of two friends, finally...
...Lansing, a 32-year-old geneticist and old-age expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...
...lonely cells first league together, subordinating their individual interests to the common good? Such questions fascinate biologists, for the mysterious force which makes cells cooperate is the basic law of multicellular life...