Crossword-Solution: METAZOA
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| Metazoa | n. pl. | Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa. |
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| Division for most animals | 1 answer |
| Multicellular animals, collectively | 1 answer |
| KINGDOM (biol.) | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
NEOTMOI
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with METAZOA (5)
Romanes writes: "Professor Weismann has shown that there is throughout the metazoa a general correlation between the natural lifetime of individuals composing any given species, and the age at which they reach maturity or first become capable of procreation." This, I believe, has been the conclusion generally arrived at by biologists for some years past.
This "homology of the two primary germinal layers" extends through the whole of the metazoa, or tissue-forming animals; that is to say, through the whole animal kingdom, with the one exception of its lowest section, the unicellular beings, or protozoa.
The typical embryonic form of the metazoa, as it is presented for a time by this simple structure of the two-layered body, is called the gastrula; it is to be conceived as the hereditary reproduction of some primitive common ancestor of the metazoa, which we call the gastraea.
All these animals may be comprised under the general heading of "gut animals," or metazoa, in contradistinction to the gutless protozoa.
But all the other animals--all the tissue-forming animals, or metazoa, as we call them, in contradistinction to the protozoa--construct real germinal layers by the repeated cleavage of the impregnated ovum.
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Appears in: Crossroads.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2005).