Unikonta

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What is Unikonta?

Features: Very diverse group. Major clades: Amoebozoans and Opisthokonts.

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What are the 2 major Unikonta clades?

Groups: Amoebozoans and Opisthokonts.

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What are Amoebozoans?

Group: Unikonta.

Features: Lobe/tube-shaped pseudopodia.

Examples: Slime molds, tubulinids, Entamoebas.

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What are slime molds?

Group: Amoebozoans.

Types: Plasmodial and cellular slime molds.

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What is a plasmodial slime mold?

Group: Amoebozoan.

Feature: Large multinucleate mass of cytoplasm.

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What is a cellular slime mold?

Group: Amoebozoan.

Feature: Solitary feeding cells aggregate during development.

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What are tubulinids?

Group: Amoebozoans.

Features: Unicellular, mostly heterotrophic; eat bacteria and protists

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What is Entamoeba histolytica?

Group: Amoebozoan.

Feature: Human parasite causing amebic dysentery.