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PHYLUM PROTOZOA 



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varied modes of nutrition. Many of the lower forms, such as 

 Heteromita, live in decomposing animal infusions : they have 





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13. An(-ho|jhysoi H.Rhif)idodendron 



FIG. 53. Various forms of Flagellata. 'In 2, flagellate (a) and amcnboid (6) phases are 

 shown ; in 5, flagellate (a> andlheliozoan (b) phases ; in 8 are shown two stages in the 



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neither mouth nor gullet and take no solid food, but live by 

 absorbing the nutrient matters in the solution ; their nutrition is, 



