What Is a Protozoon?

Autor: Genoveva F. Esteban, Tom Fenchel
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Ecology of Protozoa ISBN: 9783030599782
Popis: The question as stated by the chapter heading is not trivial. Many standard textbooks define protozoa as “unicellular animals”, but this is not satisfactory. The idea that protozoa are unicellular in the sense that they correspond to a single cell of a multicellular organism was first conceived about 200 years after their discovery by Leeuwenhoek in 1674. The term “Protozoa” was coined by Goldfuss in 1817 to mean “original animals” and he included the coelenterates.
Databáze: OpenAIRE