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Unicellular and some simple multicellular organisms get nutrients from and dispose of waste products into the surrounding environment directly through their cell membranes (mainly by diffusion, molecular pumps, and endo/exocytosis). This is only energy efficient when a large enough surface area of the organism can be exposed to the surrounding medium because it's difficult to transport materials across more than a few layers of cells. Larger organisms get around this by utilizing circulatory vessels to bring nutrients to and waste products away from cells deeper in the organism's interior. An analogy would be using aqueducts to get water in and sewer Plumbing to get waste out of the interior portions of a land mass. This is also why generally single celled organisms tend to be very small. Otherwise their surface area-to-volume ratio would be too large to get nutrients into the cell's interior.

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