Holozoa

Holozoa is a group of creatures that includes animals, and some single-celled relatives of animals, which excludes fungi. 


  Holozoa is also an old name for the tunicate genus Distaplia. Holozoa is a clade: a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor. It has all of the organisms close to animals.Examples

An example of a well-known holozoan is the choanoflagellate, which looks like the cells of a sponge. Proterospongia'' is an example of a choanoflagellate giving clues as to how sponges evolved.

Evolution

The phylogenic tree shows how clades evolved into newer clades, which include Holozoa.

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References

Category:Eukaryotes
Category:Cell biology