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protist

NOUN
  1. free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

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  • Fungi and protozoa may be observed but the light microscope's low magnification does not provide detailed resolution of fungi and protists (which could be protozoa, slime moulds or microalgae).
  • Organisms that live within the interstitial spaces of sea ice include microfauna such as protists, and larger organisms such as ciliates, nematodes, rotatorians, turbellarians, and copepods. General description of the Arctic biota
  • A detailed understanding of protistan biology, therefore, offers scientists and lay persons alike the ability to address current attacks on evolutionary theory, and to refute the claims of ID creationists who insist on invoking supernatural explanations to account for observable phenomena. Reason Magazine
  • The euglena is a protist and is one of the longer looking cells. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The absence of functional mitochondria in protists such as trichomonads suggests that they diverged from other eukaryotes prior to the alpha-proteobacterial symbiosis that led to mitochondria.
  • The data from the planktonic protistan biodiversity (rDNA, rRNA, transcriptomes, imaging) will allow statistical analyses of populations and ecology on the basis of the nucleotidic sequences and their genetic variability. Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • As these cells are small (about a micrometer across) the most likely consumers of Synechococcus or Prochlorococcus are flagellate and ciliate protists. Marine microbes
  • Steenkamp ET, Wright J, Baldauf SL (2006) The protistan origins of animals and fungi. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Vertebrate and invertebrate animals, land plants, and protists are all represented as fossils in the Solnhofen Limestone.
  • Some protist species retain and use the chloroplasts in the prey they eat while other protists harbor symbionts, entire autotrophic bacteria or protists. Marine microbes
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