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Metazoa
[met-uh-zoh-uh]
noun
a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
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Other Word Forms
- metazoan adjective
- metazoic adjective
- metazoal adjective
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“Metazoa” brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world.
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Our integrative analyses place Ctenophora as the earliest lineage within Metazoa.
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In the higher Metazoa the whole cell—muscle cell—is specialized for contractility, and shows, as a result of its specialization, a distinct fibrillation.
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The phylum Porifera or Spongi� includes the simplest of the Metazoa or multicellular animals.
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MicroRNAs are very diverse across the Metazoa, and the first ones seem to have arisen in the ancestor to sponges.
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