Trophozoite vs Sporozoite - What's the difference?
trophozoite | sporozoite |
A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle.
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Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
As nouns the difference between trophozoite and sporozoite
is that trophozoite is a protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle while sporozoite is any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.trophozoite
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(wikipedia trophozoite)Noun
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