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The advantages of being either unicellular or multicellular.
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A unicellular organism, also regarded as a single cell organism, is an organism consisting of a single cell. The multicellular organism is comprised of multiple types of cells. There are two broad types of unicellular organisms, prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. A wide variety of organisms that are present on the Earth are multicellular.
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