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Meaning of "parazoan" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARAZOAN

From parazoa, formed on the model of protozoa and metazoa, from para-1 + Greek zōon animal.

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARAZOAN

ˌpærəˈzəʊən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARAZOAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parazoan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARAZOAN

actinozoan · anthozoan · Baron-Cohen · Bowen · bryozoan · Cohen · entozoan · epizoan · heliozoan · hydrozoan · mesozoan · metazoan · mycetozoan · polyzoan · protozoan · rowan · Samoan · scyphozoan · spermatozoan · sporozoan

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARAZOAN

paratheses · parathesis · parathion · parathormone · parathyroid · parathyroid gland · parathyroid hormone · paratonic · paratroop · paratroopers · paratroops · paratyphoid · paratyphoid fever · paravail · paravane · paravant · parawing · paraxial · parazoa · parazoon

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARAZOAN

bank loan · blue roan · eoan · groan · home loan · interlibrary loan · Joan · jumbo loan · koan · loan · Minoan · moan · on loan · personal loan · red roan · roan · savings and loan · Sloan · student loan · Zoan

Synonyms and antonyms of parazoan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «parazoan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARAZOAN

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The translations of parazoan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parazoan» in English.
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parazoan
1,325 millions of speakers
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parazoan
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parazoan
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parazoan
380 millions of speakers
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parazoan
280 millions of speakers
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parazoan
278 millions of speakers
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parazoan
270 millions of speakers
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parazoan
260 millions of speakers
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parazoan
220 millions of speakers
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Parazoan
190 millions of speakers
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parazoan
180 millions of speakers
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parazoan
130 millions of speakers
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parazoan
85 millions of speakers
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Parazoan
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parazoan
80 millions of speakers
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parazoan
75 millions of speakers
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पॅराझोन
75 millions of speakers
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parazoan
70 millions of speakers
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parazoan
65 millions of speakers
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parazoan
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parazoan
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parazoan
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parazoan
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parazoan
14 millions of speakers
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parazoan
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parazoan
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Trends of use of parazoan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARAZOAN»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARAZOAN»

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Information in the Brain: A Molecular Perspective
A Parazoan Nervous System? If true transmitters arose in primitive monera and protozoa, prior to the emergence of neurons, transmitter molecules and mechanisms should be detectable in the most primitive metazoa, whether or not neurons ...
Ira B. Black, 1994
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Genome Evolution: Gene and Genome Duplications and the ...
Suga. H., Koyanagi, M., Hoshiyama, D., Ono, K., Iwabe, N., Kuma, K. and Miyata, T. (1999b) Extensive gene duplication in the early evolution of animals before the parazoan-eumeta- zoan split demonstrated by G proteins and protein tyrosine ...
Axel Meyer, Yves van de Peer, 2003
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Protein Evolution
Phylogenetic analysis of the evolutionary history of metazoan protein tyrosine phosphatases has led to the conclusion that there was a period of explosive gene duplication before the parazoan–eumetazoan split, leading to the formation of ...
Laszlo Patthy, 2009
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Biology of the invertebrates
The mesozoan and parazoan groups are often considered primitive multicellular animals. 2. The multicellular animals, or Metazoa, are typically divided into three branches: Mesozoa, Parazoa, and Eumetazoa. 3. Two phyla (Mesozoa and ...
Cleveland Pendleton Hickman, 1973
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Basic Palaeontology
... differentiated into tissues or organs. Parazoans are in some ways intermediate between the unicellular protozoans and the complex multicellular metazoans. Nevertheless, the parazoan organization was probably an evolutionary dead end ;.
Michael J. Benton, D. A. T. Harper, 1997
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The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the ...
The sponge and piacozoan level of organization is often called parazoan. Some zoologists treat Parazoa as a formal subkingdom but such a grouping would be paraphyletic and has no place in a cladistic taxonomy. But the informal adjective  ...
Colin Tudge, 2000
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Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology
... the phylogeny was derived using the NJ method with a fungal PDE as the outgroup. , Parazoan–eumetazoan split; , human–Drosophila (or nematode) split; , gene duplications that gave rise to different subtypes; , gene duplications whose  ...
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Evolutionary Genetics : Concepts and Case Studies: Concepts ...
1999 Extensive gene duplication in the early evolution of animals before the parazoan-eumetazoan split demonstrated by G proteins and protein tyrosine kinases from sponge and hydra. J. Mol. Evol. 48:646-653. [14] Sultan SE & HG Spencer ...
Lexington Charles W. Fox Department of Entomology University of Kentucky, Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester Jason B. Wolf Lecturer, 2006
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Coelenterate Biology 2003: Trends in Research on Cnidaria ...
The other possibilities are that the larvae are passive immigrants or that they come from indigenous macrocnemes (Epizoanthus or Parazoan- thus). The main ocean current in this region is the cold, north-flowing Falkland Current, but there is ...
Daphne G. Fautin, Jane A. Westfall, P Cartwright, 2007
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Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions
67. Galliot, B. & Miller, D. Origin of anterior patterning. How old is our head? Trends Genet 16, 1–5 (2000). 68. Suga, H. et al. Extensive gene duplication in the early evolution of animals before the parazoan-eumetazoan split demonstrated by ...
Joram PIATIGORSKY, Joram Piatigorsky, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARAZOAN»

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... with an $80-million opening weekend for the popular pineapple-dwelling TV parazoan I would definitely say this sequel was sponge-worthy. «Post-Bulletin, Feb 15»
REFERENCE
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