Biology 2e

2nd Edition

ISBN: 9781947172517

Author: Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark

Publisher: OpenStax

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Cell Signaling

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Why is signaling in multicellular organisms more complicated than signaling in single-celled organisms?

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Biology 2e

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