Bacteria have a simpler body plan when compared with human beings.

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asked Jun 3, 2017 in Biology by Kundan kumar (49,132 points) 34 381 1015
Bacteria have a simpler body plan when compared with human beings. Does it mean that human beings are more evolved than bacteria? Provide a suitable explanation.

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answered Jun 3, 2017 by Vikash Kumar (144,729 points) 8 11 21
selected Jun 4, 2017 by Kundan kumar
 
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This is a debatable issue. If appearance of complexity is concurrent with evolution then, human beings are certainly more evolved than bacteria. But if we take the totality of life characteristics into account, then it is hard to label either organism as evolved.

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