Meaning & use
Sarcodina
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A former taxonomic group of protozoans that move and feed using temporary cell extensions called pseudopods, such as amoebas.
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Textbooks once classified amoebas under Sarcodina, a group now considered obsolete in modern taxonomy.
The professor explained how Sarcodina was later split among several unrelated protist lineages.
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This classification has been abandoned in modern biology, as genetic studies showed its members were not closely related; it survives mainly in older textbooks.
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Rhizopoda
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