A Bikont is a eukaryotic cell with two flagella. Some current (2005 A.D.) research suggests that a unikont (a eukaryotic cell with a single flagellum) was the ancestor of Animals, Amoeba and Fungi, and a bikont was the ancestor of Plants and all other eukaryotes. See Thomas Cavalier-Smith. Kingdoms Animalia - Animals Fungi Plantae - Plants Protista A eukaryote (also spelled eucaryote) is an organism with complex cells, in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei. ... A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a whip-like organelle that many unicellular organisms, and some multicellular ones, use to move about. ... Amoeba is a genus of protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopods, and is well-known as a representative unicellular organism. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota The Fungi (singular: fungus) are a large group of organisms ranked as a kingdom within the Domain Eukaryota. ... Thomas Cavalier-Smith is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Oxford, and is winner of the International Prize for Biology 2004 and one of the most notable researchers concerning the relationships, development, and classification of living things. ...
The speakers were Anna Bikont, a journalist with Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading newspaper, and the author of a new book, "My z Jedwabnego" ("We from Jedwabne"), and Antony Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University who has written extensively on the history of Jews in modern Poland.
Bikont said that after decades of silence on the subject and in the face of persistent Polish anti-Semitism she has been surprised by the willingness of Poles to talk about what happened in Jedwabne and in some cases to offer apologies.
Bikont paid tribute to people whom she described as "heroes of Jedwabne," Poles who opposed the violence or who actively helped Jews to escape.
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