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What are the disadvantages of being a single celled organism?

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The disadvantages are as follows...

  1. Short life span, if they loose their one cell they're dead.
  2. Every cell is makes (through the cell cycle) will be EXACTLY the same.
  3. Unicellular orginisms cannot adapt, because they are all the same.
  4. The cell must be small.

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