Question

Propose a hypothesis for the evolution of life on earth from single-celled organisms to multicellular organisms. What is the most significant step in the evolution of multicellularity?

Answer 1

there are tree hypothesis

Step-by-step explanation:

There are several mechanisms by which multicellularity could have evolved:

1. A group of cells were added in a slug-shaped mass called grex, which was moved as a multicellular unit, as the Myxomycota do.

2. The primitive cell suffered an incomplete division of the cell nucleus generating a cell with multiple nuclei or syncytium. Next, membranes formed around each nucleus and the space was occupied by organelles. This resulted in a group of cells connected in an organism, an observable mechanism in Drosophila.

3. Daughter cells did not separate after cell division, resulting in a conglomeration of identical cells in an organism, which later developed specialized functions. This is observed in embryos of plants, animals and colonial cyanoflagellates.

Should read more about the topic here, google it:

Multicellular development in a choanoflagellate; Stephen R. Fairclough, Mark J. Dayel and Nicole King

In a Single-Cell Predator, Clues to the Animal Kingdom’s Birth