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ophistokont

ophistokont is the misspelling of opisthokont.

Meaning of opisthokont

Noun

opisthokont (plural opisthokonts)

  1. Any of very many eukaryotes, including animals and fungi, whose flagellate cells (if any) propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
    • Based on a single posterior flagellum (opisthokont), flattened, nondiscoid mitochondrial cristae, a chitinous exoskeleton, storage of glycogen instead of starch, lack of chloroplasts, and the code UGA for tryptophan, not chain termination, in their mitochondria, Cavalier-Smith [54] suggests a...2002, Michael Breitenbach, Reto Crameri, Samuel B. Lehrer, Fungal Allergy and Pathogenicity, Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 211, →ISBN

Questions about ophistokont

What is ophistokont the misspelling of?
Ophistokont is the misspelling of opisthokont.

Words near ophistokont in the dictionary

  1. Ophir
  2. Ophir City
  3. ophiruoid
  4. Ophis
  5. Ophism
  6. ophistokont
  7. ophistotic
  8. ophistotics
  9. ophite
  10. ophites
  11. ophitic

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