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choanozoan

choanozoan noun: any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.

Noun

choanozoan (plural choanozoa or choanozoans)

  1. Any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.
    • It suggest that the imported aCCA gene replaced the ancestral eukaryotic eCCA gene, leading to a number of independent losses of the eCCA gene in the choanozoan groups.2015 June 27, Heike Betat et al., “The ancestor of modern Holozoa acquired the CCA-adding enzyme from Alphaproteobacteria by horizontal gene transfer”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 43, →DOI

Forms of choanozoan

pluralchoanozoa
pluralchoanozoans

Origin of choanozoan

From translingual Choanozoa + -an.

Questions about choanozoan

What does choanozoan mean?
Choanozoan means any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.
What part of speech is choanozoan?
Choanozoan is a noun.
What is the plural of choanozoan?
The plural of choanozoan is choanozoa.

Words near choanozoan in the dictionary

  1. choanosoma
  2. choanosomal
  3. choanosome
  4. choanosomes
  5. choanozoa
  6. choanozoan
  7. choanozoans
  8. Choat
  9. choate
  10. Choates
  11. choatropic

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