How Complex Cells Evolved – Endosymbiosis
What if you could absorb another organism and take on its abilities? Imagine you swallowed a small bird and suddenly gained the ability to fly.…
Tag: The Cell
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks – HeLa cell line
Imagine something small enough to float on a particle of dust that holds the keys to understanding cancer, virology, and genetics. Luckily for us, such…
How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth
There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused both the first mass extinction in Earth’s history and also paved the way for complex life.…
What is the biggest single-celled organism?
The elephant is a creature of epic proportions, and yet it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells, and on the epically…
What are single-celled organisms? How do they survive?
What are single-celled organisms? How do they survive? Single-celled organisms are living organisms. There are two categories of organisms- those made up of a single cell (single-celled…
