NOUN
- a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
How To Use ciliated protozoan In A Sentence
- Pick any eukaryotic species (say, the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila) — one cannot be certain that a member of that species shares common ancestry, from a discrete cell, with a member of any other eukaryotic species (say, Drosophila melanogaster). A Disclaimer for Behe?
- In a pioneering experiment, they demonstrated that telomere DNA from one organism, a unicellular ciliated protozoan called Tetrahymena thermophila, would protect and stabilise chromosomes in an entirely different organism, yeast. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech
