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opisthokonts

opisthokonts is the plural 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 opisthokonts

What is opisthokonts the plural of?
Opisthokonts is the plural of opisthokont.

Words near opisthokonts in the dictionary

  1. opisthographic
  2. opisthographs
  3. opisthography
  4. opisthogyrate
  5. opisthokont
  6. opisthokonts
  7. opisthomastigote
  8. opisthomastigotes
  9. opisthomerite
  10. opisthomerites
  11. opisthomonorchiine

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