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- Sep 2023
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gap junctions
- for: gap junctions, multicellular cohesion, multicellular unity, MET, major evolutionary transition, group to individual, group glue
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- gap junctions play a critical role in cohering a group of cells together
- hence they might be considered a kind of "cellular glue" which fosters evolutionary fitness by incentifying individual organisms to beneficially socially interact with other individual organisms
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question
- do gap junctions play a role in major evolutionary transition (MET)?
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adjacency between
- gap junction
- cancer
- MET
- individual to group
- adjacency statement
- gap junctions may play a role in major evolutionary transition, enabling individual cells to unite into a group, leading to the evolution of multicellular organisms. Investigate and do literature review to see if this is the case.
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