Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Chapter 17
Euglenozoa
“Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.”
Kevin Kelly
Eukaryota
Bikonta (2-flagella)
Excavata
Metamonada (Chapter 16)
Discoba
Discicristata
Euglenozoa (Chapter 17)
Kinetoplastida
Trypanosomatida
*Leishmania
*Trypanosoma
Percolozoa (Chapter 18)
Archaeplastida (Chapter 24)
Chromalveolata (Chapters 19
21)
Alveolata
Apicomplexa (Chapter 19)
Ciliophora (ciliates) (Chapter 20)
Heterokontophyta (Chapter 21)
Unikonta (1-flagellum)
Amoebozoa (Chapter 22)
Opisthokonta
Choanozoa (Chapter 23)
Animalia (Chapters 25
32)
Fungi (Chapters 33
37)
The Euglenozoa are single-cell organisms that are closely related to the
Percolozoans (Chapter 18). Class Euglenozoa plus Class Perocolozoa consti-
tute the only subclasses of Class Discicristata that contain human pathogens.
As such, euglenozoans and procolozoans have disc-shaped mitochondria,
