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University of British Columbia researchers discovered unique unicellular organism – plankton warnowiid dinoflagellates, which has a multicellular eye. It is so it’s amazing that even makes us reconsider our well-established an idea of the structure of the organic world.
At first, scientists thought that an organ, like an eye, got into plankton from the victim he ate. But it turned out to be a living organ warnowiid dinoflagellates himself. The eye, as scientists have determined, most likely helps plankton to see its victims.
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The eye of a unicellular organism turned out to be rather complicated a structure that has a retina, lens, iris and cornea – in general, everything that our organ of vision has. It turns out that warnowiid dinoflagellates plankton is not so unicellular.
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Does the eye help plankton to hunt, or does it perform some kind of scientists haven’t fully figured out another function. As melted, such unicellular organisms use peculiar harpoons, thanks with which they capture other planktonic structures. Vision here completely unnecessary. In that case, why warnowiid dinoflagellates need eyes, that is the question?
