Choanoflagellates are plankton: tiny protozoans that feed on even tinier bacteria.
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Choanoflagellate
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Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 領鞭毛蟲 /领鞭毛虫 noun (any of a group of flagellate protozoa)
Finnish
1 entries- kaulussiimaeliö noun (any of a group of flagellate protozoa)
Polish
1 entries- wiciowiec kołnierzykowy noun (any of a group of flagellate protozoa)
Portuguese
1 entries- coanoflagelado noun (any of a group of flagellate protozoa)
Spanish
1 entries- coanoflagelado noun (any of a group of flagellate protozoa)
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Detailed studies showed that the sponge and the cells of a protist called a choanoflagellate used a different set of genes and proteins to build similar-looking structures.
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