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A trophozoite is the activated, feeding stage in the life cycle of protozoan parasites such as the malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum (the opposite of the trophozoite state is the thick-walled cyst form).

The trophozoite develops into a schizont which is a mother cell which asexually produces daughter cells known as merozoites. Another type of Balantidium Coli is cysts. A merozoite is a daughter cell of protozoan parasites. ...

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Medmicro Chapter 80 (4605 words)
	Trichomonas vaginalis is a pear-shaped trophozoite (7 to 23 µm long) with four anterior flagella and a fifth forming the outer edge of a short undulating membrane.
	The trophozoite, or actively metabolizing, motile form, lives in the upper two-thirds of the small intestine (duodenum and jejunum) and multiplies by binary fission.
	Trophozoites that are swept into the fecal stream lose their motility, round up, and are excreted as dormant, resistant cysts (Fig.

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