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Metazoa /ˌmɛtəˈzəʊə /plural noun Zoology1A major division of the animal kingdom that comprises all animals other than protozoans and sponges. They are multicellular animals with differentiated tissues.- Subkingdom Metazoa, kingdom Animalia.
Not only Metazoa, but other multicellular clades such as Fungii and Metaphyta, must also be organized so that their basic body parts-differentiated cell types-are assembled into a hierarchy of functional associations....- Now, based on the study with protein molecules, Fungi are regarded as the nearest-neighbor kingdom of the Metazoa, a conclusion which is supported by others.
- Belt desmosomes are the constituent character of the Epitheliazoa, the next higher taxon above the Porifera within the Metazoa, comprising the taxa Placozoa and Eumetazoa.
1.1 ( metazoa) Animals of the Metazoa division.These results suggest that insulin-like genes have coevolved with the appearance of the metazoa (multicellular animals with differentiated tissues)....- Cnidarians may be informative about body plan evolution in the metazoa both because of what they share with bilaterians and what they lack.
- Consider the possibility that the destruction of the Drosophila model will prove generally true, if not for all organisms perhaps, then at least for metazoa.
OriginModern Latin (plural), from meta- (expressing change) + Greek zōia (plural of zōion 'animal'). |