Talk:Multicellular organism
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[edit] Merger proposal
The article on the multicellular organisms consists mainly of two sections on "Evolutionary history" and "Hypotheses for origin". Both of them are treated with more detail in evolution of multicellularity. In turn, the latter article would benefit from an overview of just how often multicellularity actually evolved. MichaK (talk) 15:37, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] All plants are multicellular?
This article says all plants are multicellular, but Valonia ventricosa says it is plant and unicellular.--MathFacts (talk) 13:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- Simple fix, the article already said 'except for specialized organisms such as'. I've just added the single celled plant there as another exception to the rule Jebus989✰ 13:59, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- The larger issue is that there are multiple definitions of "plant". In the strictest sense they are land plants (all multicellular), whereas algae like Valonia ventricosa are included in the loser definition. So I've excluded algae in the main article. MichaK (talk) 14:56, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Advantages of multicellularity
Hey, I think this article probably needs a section on the advantages and disadvantages of being multicellular. I wrote most of the hypothesis for how they evolved a few years ago but I've put some bullet points in for advantages if anyone has time to expand, that would be great, thanks Mat8989 (talk) 23:57, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
