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Distinguishing features of the various phyla of protozoans.

Sagot :

Answer:

Some members of each group unicellular (& some colonial & some w/multicellular stages in life cycle)

-Mostly microscopic

No germ layer present

Specialized organelles; (found nucleus single or multiple, no organs or tissues)

-Free living, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism all represented in groups

-Locomotion by pseudopodia, flagella, cilia, & direct cell movements; some sessile

-Some provided w/simple endoskeleton or exoskeleton, but most naked

-Nutrition of all types

-Aquatic or terrestrial habitat

-Reproduction asexually by fission, budding, & cysts and sexually by conjugation or syngamy (union of male & female gametes to form zygote)

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