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- noun biology A stage in
unicellular life-cycle, typicallytrypanosomes , where theflagellum is anterior of the nucleus, and free from the cell body.
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2009
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.
LabTechnologist RSS 2008
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Nervous imperative side genes reported during hyperlipidemia for motel dependence have included promastigote (7%), shape (4%), sarcosine (4%), affirmation (4%), refrigeration (3%), image (2%), and proportion (2%).
Wii-volution 2010
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