Metazoa
Americannoun
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Origin of Metazoa
From New Latin, dating back to 1870–75; see origin at meta-, -zoa
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Our integrative analyses place Ctenophora as the earliest lineage within Metazoa.
From Nature ● May 20, 2014
The Metazoa supply examples of intestinal parasites from the classes Annuloida and Nematoidea.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
From the fact that all Metazoa develop from an ovum which is a simple cell, the evolutionists inferred that all must have arisen from one primordial cell.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The first establishment of a new kind of individual by the sexual process is effected in a very similar manner in all Metazoa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.
From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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