Why does this have to be true that all prokayotes are unicellular? Why can't they be multicellular?

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Prokaryotic organisms are unicellular. However, some bacterial species can aggregate together and function as a single colony with an additional characteristic of division of labor among the different cells so that the colony works more efficiently. This is characteristic of any traditional multicellular organism.

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A feature of reproduction that is common to Amoeba, Spirogyra and Yeast is that

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