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Is the Monocercomonoide considered a life form?

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Monocercomonoides isn’t a liviing form

Its closest relatives still have small mitochondria,

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Monocercomonoides isn’t a living fossil, a holdout from the days of the earliest eukaryotes, Karnkowska notes. Its closest relatives still have small mitochondria, suggesting that it jettisoned the organelles fairly recently in evolutionary terms. She and her colleagues speculate that more eukaryotes missing mitochondria await discovery.

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