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[QUOTE="Laroxe, post: 6022059, member: 555853"] Many single celled organisms will under the right conditions form biofilms that begin to act in a coordinated way and appear to adopt some specialisation within the group, this implies the ability to influence each other using signaling molecules, indeed some biofilms can contain several species of bacteria. It might be that the loss of the ability to revert back to individual functioning may be as important as the evolution of new traits. This describes some of the issues; [URL]https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/bacteria-archaea/prokaryote-metabolism-ecology/a/prokaryote-interactions-ecology[/URL] and some evidence [URL]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006655[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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