BIOLOGY 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Toxoplasmosis, Pyrimethamine, Chloroplast
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Protists- all eukaryotes that are not plants, fungi, or animals. A major subdivision within the bacteria (pvc superphylum & candidate phyla. Radiation) as well as an origin of the eukaryotes from within the archaea the sister group to the eukaryotes is a clade within the archaea made up of the. Loki, reveals that it is the most eukaryote-like prokaryote so far discovered. The study suggests that the ancestor of eukaryotes might have had an actin cytoskeleton and rudimentary internal structures composed of membranes. Malaria is caused by the apicomplexan protist plasmodium. There are four species of plasmodium known to infect humans, p. falciparum being the most deadly. Apicoplast is a remnant chloroplast found in a group of parasitic protists known as apicomplexans. The most famous members of this group are. Plasmodium (causative agent of malaria) and toxoplasma ((causative agent of toxoplasmosis).
