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Cryptic Dances of Parasitic Excavates
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  • 1. Plaguing excavate? Trick clue referencing smallpox’s pox, a misfit among protozoans
  • 3. Organelle often lost in parasitic excavate, energy powerhouse sacrificed
  • 4. Hypothetical term for variant flagella arrangement in some excavates (wordplay: hetero + lymph)
  • 6. African hemorrhagic trypanosome, ‘sleeping sickness’ spreads by tsetse flight
  • 8. Small nucleus in ciliates, harboring genetic secrets during sexual conjugation
  • 10. Motile whip-like organelle driving locomotion in most excavates
  • 11. Cytoskeletal microtubule layer beneath the cell membrane in excavates
  • 14. Trypanosome life stage where flagellum attaches discreetly along cell surface
  • 17. Trophozoites resemble a face in intestinal streams — protozoan flagellate
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  • 2. Protozoan able to alternate between creeping and swimming forms
  • 5. Amoeboid excavate, elusive in tissue, known for dysenteric invasions
  • 7. Anaerobic organelle replacing mitochondrion, producing hydrogen gas cryptically
  • 9. Flagellated parasite that shuns mitochondria, causing vaginitis cryptically
  • 12. Metabolic process often altered or absent in anaerobic parasitic excavates
  • 13. Excavate group with parabasal apparatus, including a pathogen of urogenital realms
  • 15. Describes excavate cells sporting dual propulsive whips in unison
  • 16. Proteinaceous complex gripping chromosomes, crucial in mitosis of excavates
  • 18. Flagellated parasite causing cutaneous ulcers, noted in tropical sunbeams
  • 19. Brain-invading excavate named after a certain protozoologist, deadly free-living

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