""'Euglena gracilis " "'is a species of " euglenoid " movement across surfaces . " Euglena gracilis " has been used extensively in the laboratory as a model organism, particularly for studying cell biology and biochemistry.
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""'Euglena gracilis " "'is a species of " euglenoid " movement across surfaces . " Euglena gracilis " has been used extensively in the laboratory as a model organism, particularly for studying cell biology and biochemistry.
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For nearly 30 years Ehrenberg examined samples of water, soil, sediment, blowing dust and rock and described thousands of new species, among them well-known flagellates such as Euglena, ciliates such as " Paramecium aurelia " and " Paramecium caudatum ", and many fossils, in nearly 400 scientific publications.
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In 1674, in a letter to the Royal Society, the Dutch pioneer of microscopy Antoni van Leeuwenhoek wrote that he had collected water samples from an inland lake, in which he found " animalcules " that were " green in the middle, and before and behind white . " Clifford Dobell regards it as " almost certain " that these were " Euglena viridis ", whose " peculiar arrangement of chromatophores . . . gives the flagellate this appearance at low magnification ."
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For example, the algae " Euglena " and " Dinobryon " have chloroplasts for photosynthesis, but can also feed on organic matter and are John Hogg argued against the use of " protozoa ", on the grounds that " naturalists are divided in opinion and probably some will ever continue so whether many of these organisms, or living beings, are animals or plants . " As an alternative, he proposed a new kingdom called Primigenum, consisting of both the protozoa and unicellular algae ( protophyta ), which he combined together under the name " Protoctista ".
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Euglenid, with plastids, rigid, flattened cells, most species very flat and leaf-shaped, often with ridges, folds or grooves running helically or longitudinally, giving an irregular or triradiate cross-section; many species with a long posterior spine, many twisted, flagella, eyespot and flagellar swelling as in Euglena; chloroplasts usually small, discoid, numerous, without pyrenoids; a few species ( e . g . " P . splendens " ) have large flat chloroplasts with pyrenoids; paramylon is typically deposited as a few large granules ( often rings ) together with many small ones; canal opening subapical; no cysts palmelloid stages rare; speciose, contemporary studies indicate that the genus is not monophyletic or holophyletic; type species : " P . longicauda " ( Ehrenberg, 1833 ) Dujardin, 1841 ..
