George Monbiot

While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life.

British Writer

Tommy Lee Jones

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

American Actor

Used mainly in science, especially in biology and microbiology discussions.

Scientific Context

Unicellular suggests something is very small, often microscopic.

Size Implication

Emphasizes simplicity; such organisms typically do not have the complex structure of multicellular ones.

Complexity

 This is a silicon wafer, and essentially that's just a whole bunch of layers of two-dimensional stuff, sort of layered up. The feature side is -- you know, people will say, down around about 65 nanometers now. On the right, that's a radiolara. That's a unicellular organism ubiquitous in the oceans.

Saul Griffith: Hardware...

 carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen

Unicellular

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