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Using examples from the Rhizopoda (ameboid Protozoa) and the Ciliata (ciliate Protozoa) to illustrate your answer, discuss the proposition that the acellular condition is "simple"  

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Using examples from the Rhizopoda (ameboid Protozoa) and the Ciliata (ciliate Protozoa) to illustrate your answer, discuss the proposition that the acellular condition is "simple" The discussion subject above is based as much upon an analysis of the word "simple" as it is of biological fact. Presented with only even a basic knowledge of classification, one can appreciate the diversity of life and the wide-ranging complex anatomy of many organisms. At a "distant glance", Protozoa seem to be composed of a minimal number of interrelating structures and so when compared to more obviously complex organisms, they are seen as relatively simple. At this point I would hypothesise that the word "simpler" is more appropriate than the word "simple". Professor Theodore Louis Jahn MSc, Professor of Zoology and Francis Floed Jahn MSc would contradict this deduction by saying: "The Protozoan cannot be considered simple in any sense of the word. Each individual...

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