ciliates in English

noun
1
a single-celled animal of a phylum distinguished by the possession of cilia or ciliary structures. The ciliates are a large and diverse group of advanced protozoans.
Most ciliates cannot reproduce indefinitely by asexual fission, and eventually die out if prohibited from conjugating.

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1. Alveolate (plural Alveolates) A member of a grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates

2. Apicomplexa is a large phylum of parasitic protists belonging to the Alveolata group, together with ciliates and dinoflagellates

3. The monstrous ciliates mainly appear, when the feed algae (Oscillatoria formosa), which can be found either in an aggregated or in an extended state, are spread.

4. Use of cyanide, sodium azide, and iodoacetate further reveals that the energy for regeneration in ciliates like Spirostomum is most likely provided by glycolysis rather than aerobic respiration.

5. Apicomplexa is a large phylum of parasitic protists belonging to the Alveolata group, together with ciliates and dinoflagellates. Several of its members are causative agents of human diseases.

6. The Apicomplexa are a monophyletic group composed almost entirely of parasitic (ie, no free-living) species. Apicomplexa, along with ciliates and dinoflagellates, form a higher order group known as Alveolata

7. Amitosis (a-+ mitosis), also called 'karyostenosis' or direct cell division or binary fission.It is cell proliferation that does not occur by mitosis, the mechanism usually identified as essential for cell division in eukaryotes.The polyploid macronucleus found in ciliates divides Amitotically