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Suggest why the cells in a multicellular organism are not all the same.

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“The cells of a multicellular organism are not all the same. They have different shapes and sizes, and do different work in the organism. The cells are specialized. This means they do only some kinds of work.”
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if an organism is larger than a certain size even moving fluid around, moving around, and other basic functions require cells that can do different things
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