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Protozoon

noun

(pl. protozoa)

Any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic. Synonym: protozoan.

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... complexity. Considered from the more fundamental molecular point of view we should perhaps look to failure of the power of cell division as the condition of mortality. For it is to this phenomenon—that of cell division—that the continued life of the protozoon is to be ascribed, as we have already seen. Reproduction is, in fact, the saving ...

— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly

... of changes a protozoon should ever become a mammal, seems to those who are not familiar with zoology, and who have not seen how clear becomes the relationship between the simplest and the most complex forms when intermediate forms are ...

— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

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