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  • verb Plural form of protist.

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Examples

  • The animal-like toolkit contained in these protists is so significant that some think these protists evolved from a metazoan.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • The scientists will focus on marine viruses and other tiny life called protists and their roles in the food chain.

    The Tree of Life 2008

  • 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 2009

  • 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.

    Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth 2010

  • These protists have abouit 9200 genes, far less than the 25,000 seen in flies or humans.

    2008 February - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • These protists have abouit 9200 genes, far less than the 25,000 seen in flies or humans.

    An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism 2008

  • This happened, according to her view, by either bacteria or protists engulfing other bacteria (endosymbiosis), or more recently, by multi-cellular organisms being infected by bacteria or viruses (symbiogenesis).

    2008 July - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • His central argument - that the "technium" his word for the world of technology deserves to be regarded as the seventh kingdom of life, along with plants, protists and animals - is an ambitious one, but one thing that Kelly does not lack is ambition.

    It's alive! And it wants to evolve. William Rosen 2010

  • Oceanographers have discovered large protists (Gromia sphaerica) roaming the bottom of the ocean near the Bahamas, making tracks that look similar to certain fossil grooves.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • Hundreds of thousands of plants, fungi, protists, fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and prokaryotes made it through as well as the Ark animals.

    The Glory - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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