According to the news , the unicellular microorganisms are rod-shaped and nourish themselves by photosynthesis .
根据新闻报道,这些单细胞微生物体是棍状的,通过光合作用自给自足。
Cancer cells , in other words , behave a lot like their distant unicellular ancestors .
也就是说,癌细胞的行为看起来更像是它们的单细胞祖先。
In reality , though , almost all living things are unicellular , and with good reason .
事实上几乎所有的生物都是单细胞的,而这是有充分的原因的。
By searching for genetic sequences similar to rega in the burgeoning databases of genes that now exist , they found one in a unicellular alga called chlamydomonas reinhardtii .
This remarkable change at a planetary scale - orchestrated by unicellular beings - did something else that allowed complex life to thrive on earth 's surface .