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UnikontaKK Newsham, Liv Kelly, Emma Flannery, Gavin Briggs-PerezAP Bio Period 4
+Features of Unikonta Animals, plants, some fungi BIGGEST group! Most free-living, some parasitic Amoebozoans:
Lobe or tube shaped pseudopodia Move by the means of internal cytoplasmic flow Common in soils and aquatic habitats Do not form microtubule-supported structures except during
mitosis
Opisthokonts: A single posterior flagellum Highly variable
+Common Species of Unikonta Amoebozoans- Amoeba, Slime Mold, Gymnamoeba,
Entamoeba Opisthokonts- nucleariids, choanoflagellates, animals,
fungai Plasmodial “sporangia” (slime mold) forms a plasmodium
mass Act as decomposers, engulfing food by phagocytosis
Entamoeba histolytica causes amebic dysentery in humans Infection of the intestines
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+Ecological & Evolutionary Significance May have been the first group of Eukaryotes to diverge
from other Eukaryotes, not widely accepted