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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTISTAN

protistan  [prəʊˈtɪstən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTISTAN

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preposition
conjunction
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Protistan 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.

WHAT DOES PROTISTAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

protistan

Protist

Protists /ˈproʊtɨst/ are a large and diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms, which belong to the kingdom Protista. There have been attempts to remove the kingdom from the taxonomy but it is still very much in use. The use of Protoctista is also preferred by various organisations and institutions. Molecular information has been used to redefine this group in modern taxonomy as diverse and often distantly related phyla. The group of protists is now considered to mean diverse phyla that are not closely related through evolution and have different life cycles, trophic levels, modes of locomotion and cellular structures. Besides their relatively simple levels of organization, the protists do not have much in common. They are unicellular, or they are multicellular without specialized tissues, and this simple cellular organization distinguishes the protists from other eukaryotes, such as fungi, animals and plants. The term protista was first used by Ernst Haeckel in 1866.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTISTAN


Aston
ˈæstən
boston
ˈbɒstən
charleston
ˈtʃɑːlstən
cistern
ˈsɪstən
eastern
ˈiːstən
Germiston
ˈdʒɜːmɪstən
Houston
ˈhjuːstən
Huston
ˈhjuːstən
Ilkeston
ˈɪlkɪstən
Kingston
ˈkɪŋstən
Liston
ˈlɪstən
multipiston
ˌmʌltɪˈpɪstən
penistone
ˈpenɪstən
piston
ˈpɪstən
Preston
ˈprɛstən
Princeton
ˈprɪnstən
sacristan
ˈsækrɪstən
Tristan
ˈtrɪstən
western
ˈwɛstən
Winston
ˈwɪnstən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTISTAN

prothetically
prothonotarial
prothonotariat
prothonotaries
prothonotary
prothoraces
prothoracic
prothorax
prothrombin
protist
protistic
protistologist
protistology
protium
Proto team
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Norse
protoactinium
protoavis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTISTAN

Afghanistan
Balochistan
Baluchistan
East Pakistan
Hindustan
Kafiristan
Kazakhstan
Kurdistan
Kyrgyzstan
Londonistan
Nuristan
Pakistan
Tadjikistan
Tadzhikistan
Tajikistan
Turkistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Waziristan
West Pakistan

Synonyms and antonyms of protistan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «protistan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTISTAN

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The translations of protistan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protistan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

原生生物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

protista
570 millions of speakers

English

protistan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

protistan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

protistan
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

protistan
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

protistan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

protistan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

protistes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Protistan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Protisten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

protistan
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

protistan
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Protistan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

protistan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

protistan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रोटिस्तान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

protistan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

protisti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

protistan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

protistan
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

protistan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

protistan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protistan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

protistan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

protistan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protistan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTISTAN»

The term «protistan» is normally little used and occupies the 144.364 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTISTAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about protistan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTISTAN»

Discover the use of protistan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protistan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Protistan Cell Surface
The nature of protistan cell surface is as diverse as the terminology that has evolved to describe the various surface components. This terminology is defined and discussed in the opening of this book.
Richard Wetherbee, Robert A. Andersen, Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps, 2012
2
Evolution
Evolutionarily, protistan ancestry is old, dating back abou 1.6-1.8 billion years. Their relationship to meta- zoani is commonly accepted,3 and has received recent mole :ular support from nucleotide analysis of 16S RNA seque nces ( Wainright et ...
Monroe W. Strickberger, 2005
3
Marine Parasitology
Coverage of 'lower' organisms in this book is restricted to protistan and metazoan parasites and excludes fungi and other organisms such as bacteria and viruses, many of which are parasitic as defined in the Introduction. The boundary ...
Klaus Rohde, 2005
4
Tag-based Next Generation Sequencing
Massively parallel sequencing has increased our understanding of marine anoxic protistan communities. This technology shows that protistan community complexity in these environments is much greater than previously thought and includes ...
Matthias Harbers, Guenter Kahl, Günter Kahl, 2012
5
Sea Ice
Genetic approaches for characterizing and studying protistan species diversity have begun to complement traditional approaches, and to expand our knowledge of the breadth of microbial diversity in sea ice as they have in other ecosystems ...
David N. Thomas, Gerhard S. Dieckmann, 2009
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Comparative Evolution and the Origin of Sexuality
The relationship of the Protista with the Monera is still very imperfectly understood. It is tempting to assume that the protistan flagellum arose by an organization of bacterial flagella into a more complex organelle. However, against this is the ...
7
Advances in Climate Change and Global Warming Research and ...
New investigation results, 'Protistan diseases of commercially important crabs: a review,' are detailed in a study published in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. According to recent research from the United States, “Protists are a diverse group  ...
‎2012
8
Marine Microbiology
While radiolabeling methods are potentially powerful approaches for examining protistan grazing activities, they also have some distinct drawbacks. A practical consideration in radiolabeling experiments is following the movement of the label  ...
John H. Paul, 2001
9
Marine Microbiology: Ecology & Applications
Because bacterial growth efficiency is generally low i.e. large nutrient and energy inputs result in low yield of biomass, see Section 4.5.3) their overall role in carbon flux may be as a sink rather than a link to higher trophic levels. 9.5.3 Protistan ...
Colin Munn, 2003
10
Protistan Predation and TCE Biodegradation in a Fractured ...
Despite extensive research on the resources required to initiate dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE), slow rates and stalling continue to be observed in situ.
Joseph J. Cunningham (III.), 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTISTAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term protistan is used in the context of the following news items.
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Comparison of the gut microbiota of people in France and Saudi …
Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities. BMC Biol 2009; 7: 72. | Article | PubMed | CAS |; Quast C, ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
2
Where the Wild Things Are
Thus, Levandowsky is now working alongside scientists at the American Museum of Natural History to conduct genetic analyses on protistan plankton ... «CU Columbia Spectator, Sep 14»
3
One easy way to save up to 1 million lives a year
An African death from malaria, a protistan parasite that has no cure, is equally tragic as a death from Ebola. Now we are debating how we should allocate ... «MarketWatch, Aug 14»
4
Giardia sucks! An anatomy of a sucker.
Reconstructing complicated 3D structures is kind of a fun thing, and shows us once again how far from simple both cell and protistan biology are! Focus article: ... «Scientific American, May 13»
5
Loricas -- homely vessels of protists
In iron-rich samples, some protistan creations (organic tests and loricas) turn browner with age as iron oxides accumulate. So if you've ever wondered whether ... «Scientific American, Jan 13»
6
A quick dive into the protist world (Part II): Plastids
... we meet more bacterial denizens of protistan cells, following a brief encounter with a tertiary plastid endosymbiont, just to drive the point home that symbiosis, ... «Scientific American, Dec 11»
7
Carnival of Evolution #42: Answers to life, the universe and everything
... a valuable (if taxonomically flawed in places) resource on various protistan phyla. Full of 'undilopodia', of course. As much as we scoff at her terminology and ... «Scientific American, Dec 11»
8
The Lost Eukaryote: an introduction to cellular evolution
But the topic of eukaryotic evolution is a whole other type of story -- in fact, while the protistan phylogeny has been clearing up over the past decade, the question ... «Scientific American, Nov 11»
9
Worth a Thousand Words
... consolidated the fourth domain of Life hypothesis and contributed to outline a functional pan-genome for giant viruses infecting phagocytic protistan grazers. «PLoS Blogs, May 11»
10
Lab Rat: Kwee Boon Brandon Seah '11
He is specifically interested in a protistan named Nephromyces and bacteria that live within them. For his senior thesis, Seah will identify the evolutionary ... «Harvard Crimson, Sep 10»

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