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Why are colonial organisms not truly multicellular?​

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Colonial Organisms

The difference between a multicellular organism and a colonial organism is that the individual organisms that form a colony or biofilm can, if separated, survive on their own, while cells from a multicellular organism (e.g., liver cells) cannot. This enables the colony to swim towards the light.

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