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Protists provide a straightforward evolutionary link between prokaryotes and multicellular organisms.
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Protists are a diverse, paraphyletic collection of eukaryotes (many unicellular), not a single ancestral "bridge." Eukaryotes arose from archaeal ancestors (plus endosymbiosis events like mitochondria), and different protist lineages are various branches of eukaryotic evolution—some closer to animals, fungi, or plants—rather than a straightforward intermediate between prokaryotes and multicellular organisms.
Protists are a diverse, paraphyletic collection of eukaryotes (many unicellular), not a single ancestral "bridge." Eukaryotes arose from archaeal ancestors (plus endosymbiosis events like mitochondria), and different protist lineages are various branches of eukaryotic evolution—some closer to animals, fungi, or plants—rather than a straightforward intermediate between prokaryotes and multicellular organisms.
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