1. Some protists are colony forming. Hypothesize why this may be an advantage or disadvantage.
1. Protists which live together forming a large multicellular colony of many individuals belonging to same species are called colonial protists. The best advantage is division of labour as they work together. Cooperativity makes them better survivor and according to Darwin's theory nature always select the better survivors. Due to cooperativity fitness level also increase and if any deletorious mutation comes oppurtunity to survive also increases as power to conflict between levels are high in colony rather than single individual.
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