Placozoa
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placozoa-182-13471201
title:
Placozoa
text:
Placozoa is a phylum of marine and free-living (non-parasitic) animals. They are blob-like animals composed of aggregations of cells. Moving in water by ciliary motion, eating food by engulfment, reproducing by fission or budding, placozoans are described as "the simplest animals on Earth." Structural and molecular analyses have supported them as among the most basal animals, thus, constituting a primitive metazoan phylum. The first known placozoan, Trichoplax adhaerens, was discovered in 1883 b
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Basal form of free-living invertebrate
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placozoa
date created:
2002-03-06T22:15:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T13:39:19Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Trichoplax_adhaerens_photograph.png","width":1307,"height":1118}
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13
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16