SCIENCE LAB SCHEME : ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES

Single-cell organisms find more food by adopting  '' family style '' dining. For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant.

This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip.

But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it ears to survive.

New research reveals that stentors, part of a group called protists, may address the challenge by eating '' family style.''

In a paper in the journal Nature Physics, scientists shared the discovery that colonies of stentors can make water flow more quickly around them, helping them to suck up more prey. 

The findings suggest that, although they lack neurons or brains, stentors can cooperate with one another.

'' These single-cell organisms can do things that we assume are limited to more complex organisms,'' said Shashank Shekhar, a biophysicist at Emory University in Atlanta.

'' They form this higher order structure, like what we do as humans.''

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