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Amoebozoa

Index Amoebozoa

Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. [1]

133 relations: Abdominal pain, Acanthamoeba, Adenosine triphosphate, Amoeba, Amoeba (genus), Amoeba proteus, Amoebiasis, Amoebic liver abscess, Amoebozoa, Anemia, Animal, Apicomplexan life cycle, Apusomonadida, Arcella, Arcellinida, Archamoebae, Balamuthia mandrillaris, Basal body, Base pair, Bikont, Breviata, Chaos (genus), Chloroquine, Clade, Cochliopodium, Colitis, Collodictyon, Conosa, Crista, Cyst, Dehydroemetine, Diarrhea, Dictyostelid, Dictyostelium discoideum, Difflugia, Diiodohydroxyquinoline, Diloxanide, Discosea, DMC1 (gene), Dysentery, Echinamoebidae, Endolimax, Endoplasm, Entamoeba, Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba invadens, Entamoeba moshkovskii, Eukaryote, Flabellinia, Flagellum, ..., Fuligo septica, Fungus, Gamete, Gastrointestinal perforation, Genome, Himatismenida, Homologous recombination, Kingdom (biology), Korotnevella, Leptomyxida, Leukocytosis, Liceida, Liver, Lobosa, Loukozoa, Macromycetozoa, Malawimonas, Meiosis, Metronidazole, Micropaleontology, Microtubule, Mitochondrion, Mitosis, Model organism, Molecular genetics, Monophyly, MRE11A, MSH2, Multinucleate, Mycetozoa, Myxogastria, Myxogastromycetidae, Necrosis, Neoproterozoic, Nitazoxanide, Obazoa, Opisthokont, Parasitism, Pelomyxa, Percolozoa, Peritonitis, Phagocytosis, Phalansterium, Phylogenetic tree, Phylum, Podiata, Polyploid, Protist, Protosteliales, Protozoa, Pseudopodia, Rad50, RAD51, RAD52, Recombinase, Ribosomal RNA, Sanitation, Scotokaryotes, Serology, Sister group, Slime mold, Spo11, Sporangium, Stemonitis, Symbiosis, Symptom, Synapsis, Taxon, Taxonomy (biology), Test (biology), Testate amoebae, Thecamoeba, Thecamoebidae, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Tinidazole, Trichiida, Trichosia, Tubulinea, Unikont, Uninucleate, Vacuole, Varisulca, World Health Organization. Expand index (83 more) »

Abdominal pain

Abdominal pain, also known as a stomach ache, is a symptom associated with both non-serious and serious medical issues.

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Acanthamoeba

Acanthamoeba is a genus of amoebae, a single-celled eukaryote commonly recovered from soil, fresh water and other habitats.

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Adenosine triphosphate

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a complex organic chemical that participates in many processes.

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Amoeba

An amoeba (rarely spelled amœba, US English spelled ameba; plural am(o)ebas or am(o)ebae), often called amoeboid, is a type of cell or organism which has the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.

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Amoeba (genus)

Amoeba is a genus of single-celled amoeboids in the family Amoebidae.

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Amoeba proteus

Amoeba proteus, alternatively Chaos diffluens, is an amoeba closely related to the giant amoebae and a species commonly bought at science supply stores.

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Amoebiasis

Amoebiasis, also known amoebic dysentery, is an infection caused by any of the amoebae of the Entamoeba group.

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Amoebic liver abscess

A amoebic liver abscess is a type of liver abscess caused by amebiasis.

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Amoebozoa

Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae.

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Anemia

Anemia is a decrease in the total amount of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, or a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Apicomplexan life cycle

Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages evolved to allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle.

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Apusomonadida

The Apusomonadida are an taxonomic group of protozan zooflagellates, that appear to be the sister group to the Opisthokonts.

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Arcella

Arcella is a genus of testate amoebae or Arcellinida, usually found in freshwaters and mosses, and rarely in soils.

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Arcellinida

Arcellinid testate amoebae or Arcellinida,http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/gsamoebae.html Testate amoebae, peat bogs and past climates.

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Archamoebae

The Archamoebae are a group of protists originally thought to have evolved before the acquisition of mitochondria by eukaryotes.

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Balamuthia mandrillaris

Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba that is known to cause the deadly neurological condition known as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE).

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Basal body

A basal body (synonymous with basal granule, kinetosome, and in older cytological literature with blepharoplast) is a protein structure found at the base of a eukaryotic undulipodium (cilium or flagellum).

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Base pair

A base pair (bp) is a unit consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds.

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Bikont

A bikont ("two flagella") is any of the eukaryotic organisms classified in the group Bikonta.

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Breviata

Breviata anathema is a single-celled flagellate amoeboid eukaryote, previously studied under the name Mastigamoeba invertens.

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Chaos (genus)

Chaos is a genus of amoebae, in the family Amoebidae.

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Chloroquine

Chloroquine is a medication used to prevent and to treat malaria in areas where malaria is known to be sensitive to its effects.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.

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Colitis

Colitis is an inflammation of the colon.

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Collodictyon

Collodictyon is a basal genus of single-celled eukaryotes not closely related to any heretofore known kingdom of that domain.

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Conosa

Conosa is a grouping of Amoebozoa.

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Crista

A crista (plural cristae) is a fold in the inner membrane of a mitochondrion.

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Cyst

A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct membrane and division compared with the nearby tissue.

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Dehydroemetine

Dehydroemetine is a synthetically produced antiprotozoal agent similar to emetine in its anti-amoebic properties and structure (they differ only in a double bond next to the ethyl substituent), but it produces fewer side effects.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.

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Dictyostelid

The dictyostelids (Dictyostelia/Dictyostelea, ICZN, or Dictyosteliomycetes, ICBN) are a group of cellular slime molds, or social amoebae.

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Dictyostelium discoideum

Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-living amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.

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Difflugia

Difflugia is the largest genus of Arcellinida, one of several groups of Tubulinea within the eukaryote supergroup Amoebozoa.

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Diiodohydroxyquinoline

The quinoline derivative diiodohydroxyquinoline (INN) or iodoquinol (USAN), can be used in the treatment of amoebiasis.

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Diloxanide

Diloxanide is a medication used to treat amoeba infections.

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Discosea

Discosea is a class of Amoebozoa, consisting of naked amoebae with a flattened, discoid body shape.

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DMC1 (gene)

Meiotic recombination protein DMC1/LIM15 homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DMC1 gene.

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Dysentery

Dysentery is an inflammatory disease of the intestine, especially of the colon, which always results in severe diarrhea and abdominal pains.

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Echinamoebidae

Echinamoebidae is a family of Amoebozoa, containing the genera Echinamoeba and Filamoeba.

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Endolimax

Endolimax is a genus of amoebozoa that are found in the intestines of various animals, including the species E. nana found in humans.

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Endoplasm

Endoplasm generally refers to the inner (often granulated), dense part of a cell's cytoplasm.

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Entamoeba

Entamoeba is a genus of Amoebozoa found as internal parasites or commensals of animals.

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Entamoeba histolytica

Entamoeba histolytica is an anaerobic parasitic amoebozoan, part of the genus Entamoeba.

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Entamoeba invadens

Entamoeba invadens is an amoebozoa parasite of reptiles, within the genus Entamoeba.

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Entamoeba moshkovskii

Entamoeba moshkovskii is part of the Entamoeba genus.

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Eukaryote

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within membranes, unlike Prokaryotes (Bacteria and other Archaea).

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Flabellinia

The Flabellinia are a subclass of Amoebozoa.

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Flagellum

A flagellum (plural: flagella) is a lash-like appendage that protrudes from the cell body of certain bacterial and eukaryotic cells.

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Fuligo septica

Fuligo septica is a species of plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the Myxomycetes class.

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Fungus

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Gamete

A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce.

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Gastrointestinal perforation

Gastrointestinal perforation, also known as ruptured bowel, is a hole in the wall of part of the gastrointestinal tract.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.

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Himatismenida

Himatismenida is an Amoebozoa order, in the class Discosea, along with Glycostylida and Dermamoebida.

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Homologous recombination

Homologous recombination is a type of genetic recombination in which nucleotide sequences are exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of DNA.

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Kingdom (biology)

In biology, kingdom (Latin: regnum, plural regna) is the second highest taxonomic rank, just below domain.

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Korotnevella

Korotnevella is a genus of Amoebozoa.

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Leptomyxida

Leptomyxida is an order of Amoebozoa.

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Leukocytosis

Leukocytosis is white cells (the leukocyte count) above the normal range in the blood.

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Liceida

Liceida (also Liceales) is an order of Amoebozoa.

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Liver

The liver, an organ only found in vertebrates, detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion.

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Lobosa

Lobosa is a taxonomic group of amoebae possessing broad, bluntly rounded pseudopods.

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Loukozoa

Loukozoa (From Greek loukos: groove) is a proposed taxon used in some classifications of excavate eukaryotes.

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Macromycetozoa

Macromycetozoa is a grouping of Amoebozoa.

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Malawimonas

Malawimonas is an excavate genus.

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Meiosis

Meiosis (from Greek μείωσις, meiosis, which means lessening) is a specialized type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell that gave rise to them.

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Metronidazole

Metronidazole, marketed under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication.

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Micropaleontology

Micropaleontology (also sometimes spelled as micropalaeontology) is the branch of palaeontology that studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristic details.

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Microtubule

Microtubules are tubular polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton that provides the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and some bacteria with structure and shape.

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Mitochondrion

The mitochondrion (plural mitochondria) is a double-membrane-bound organelle found in most eukaryotic organisms.

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Mitosis

In cell biology, mitosis is a part of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.

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Model organism

A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Molecular genetics

Molecular genetics is the field of biology that studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level and thus employs methods of both molecular biology and genetics.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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MRE11A

Double-strand break repair protein MRE11A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRE11A gene.

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MSH2

DNA mismatch repair protein Msh2 also known as MutS protein homolog 2 or MSH2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSH2 gene, which is located on chromosome 2.

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Multinucleate

Multinucleate cells (also called multinucleated or polynuclear cells) are eukaryotic cells that have more than one nucleus per cell, i.e., multiple nuclei share one common cytoplasm.

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Mycetozoa

Mycetozoa is a grouping of slime molds.

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Myxogastria

Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, ICZN) or Myxomycetes (ICBN), is a class of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera and 888 species.

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Myxogastromycetidae

Myxogastromycetidae is a subclass of Myxogastria.

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Necrosis

Necrosis (from the Greek νέκρωσις "death, the stage of dying, the act of killing" from νεκρός "dead") is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.

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Neoproterozoic

The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from.

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Nitazoxanide

Nitazoxanide is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic and broad-spectrum antiviral drug that is used in medicine for the treatment of various helminthic, protozoal, and viral infections.

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Obazoa

Obazoa (Brown, 2013) is a proposed sister clade of Amoebozoa (which together form Amorphea).

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Opisthokont

The opisthokonts (Greek: ὀπίσθιος (opísthios).

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Parasitism

In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pelomyxa

Pelomyxa is a genus of giant flagellar amoeboids, usually 500-800 μm but occasionally up to 5 mm in length, found in anaerobic or microaerobic bottom sediments of stagnant freshwater ponds or slow-moving streams.

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Percolozoa

The Percolozoa are a group of colourless, non-photosynthetic excavates, including many that can transform between amoeboid, flagellate, and cyst stages.

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Peritonitis

Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs.

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Phagocytosis

In cell biology, phagocytosis is the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle to form an internal compartment known as a phagosome.

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Phalansterium

Phalansterium is a genus of single-celled flagellated organisms comprising several species, which form colonies.

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Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.

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Phylum

In biology, a phylum (plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class.

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Podiata

Podiata (Cavalier-Smith, 2012) or Sulcozoa (incl. Unikonts, Cavalier-Smith, 2012) or Sarcomastigota (incl. Unikonts, Cavalier-Smith, 1983) are a proposed clade containing the Unikonts (incl. Opisthokont and Amoebozoa) and smaller groupings such as Diphyllatea and Rigifilda, Breviata, Ancyromonas (Planomonas), Mantamonadida, and Apusomonadida.

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Polyploid

Polyploid cells and organisms are those containing more than two paired (homologous) sets of chromosomes.

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Protist

A protist is any eukaryotic organism that has cells with nuclei and is not an animal, plant or fungus.

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Protosteliales

Protosteliomycetes/Protosteliales (ICBN) or Protostelea/Protostelia/Protosteliida (ICZN) is a grouping of slime molds from the phylum Mycetozoa.

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Protozoa

Protozoa (also protozoan, plural protozoans) is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris.

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Pseudopodia

A pseudopod or pseudopodium (plural: pseudopods or pseudopodia) (from the Greek word ψευδοποδός, ψευδός "false" + ποδός "foot") is a temporary cytoplasm-filled projection of an eukaryotic cell membrane or a unicellular protist.

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Rad50

DNA repair protein RAD50, also known as RAD50, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAD50 gene.

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RAD51

RAD51 is a eukaryotic gene.

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RAD52

RAD52 homolog (S. cerevisiae), also known as RAD52, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the RAD52 gene.

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Recombinase

Recombinases are genetic recombination enzymes.

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Ribosomal RNA

Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) is the RNA component of the ribosome, and is essential for protein synthesis in all living organisms.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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Scotokaryotes

The Scotokaryotes (Cavalier-Smith) or Opimoda is a proposed basal Neokaryote clade as sister of the Diaphoratickes.

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Serology

Serology is the scientific study of serum and other bodily fluids.

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Sister group

A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Slime mold

Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures.

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Spo11

Spo11 is a protein used in a complex along with Mre11, Rad50 and NBS1 during meiotic recombination.

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Sporangium

A sporangium (pl., sporangia) (modern Latin, from Greek σπόρος (sporos) ‘spore’ + αγγείον (angeion) ‘vessel’) is an enclosure in which spores are formed.

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Stemonitis

Stemonitis is a distinctive genus of slime moulds found throughout the world (except Antarctica).

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Symptom

A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" and πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, reflecting the presence of an unusual state, or of a disease.

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Synapsis

Synapsis (also called syndesis) is the pairing of two homologous chromosomes that occurs during meiosis.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Test (biology)

In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical marine animals, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae.

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Testate amoebae

Testate amoebae (formerly thecamoebians, Testacea or Thecamoeba) are a polyphyletic group of unicellular ameboid protists, which differ from naked amoebae in the presence of a test that partially encloses the cell, with an aperture from which the pseudopodia emerge, that provides the amoeba with shelter from predators and environmental conditions.

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Thecamoeba

Thecamoeba is a genus of Amoebozoa with a tough pellicle simulating a shell.

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Thecamoebidae

Thecamoebidae is an Amoebozoa family.

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Thomas Cavalier-Smith

Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow (born 21 October 1942), is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.

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Tinidazole

Tinidazole is a drug used against protozoan infections.

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Trichiida

Trichiida (synonymous with Trichiales T.Macbrd.) is an order of slime moulds in the phylum Amoebozoa.

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Trichosia

Trichosia is a genus of fungus gnats that feed on decaying organic matter and fungi.

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Tubulinea

The Tubulinea are a major grouping of Amoebozoa, including most of the larger and more familiar amoebae like Amoeba, Arcella, and Difflugia.

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Unikont

Unikonts or Amorphea are members of a taxonomic supergroup that includes the basal Amoebozoa and Obazoa.

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Uninucleate

No description.

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Vacuole

A vacuole is a membrane-bound organelle which is present in all plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal and bacterial cells.

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Varisulca

Varisulca is a proposed basal Podiate taxon.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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Amoebida, Amoebozoan, Amoebozoans, Cutosa, Glycopoda, Ramicristates, Semiconosa.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebozoa

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