Talk:Ciliate

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Contents 1 Page protection 2 sexual reproduction? 3 Number of Species 4 Why Protists?

[edit] Page protection

Why is this page protected? It looks like the last bout of vandalism happened on Feb 10, and there's no explanation either here or on Wikipedia:Protected page. Bryan 04:18, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vacuum requested it on March 25. →Raul654 04:21, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)

But, it does appear you are correct. Unprotecting. →Raul654 04:22, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] sexual reproduction?

This article says that they reproduce sexually, without syngamy, but with conjugation. The bacterial conjugation page says that conjugation is "like sexual reproduction" with an adamant talk page comment saying that it's not sexual. The conjugation page, though, says that conjugation is a sexual process. Reproduction meanwhile says that in sexual reproduction, two organisms have different adult sexes, but it's not clear that that's true in Cilia. I'm thoroughly confused and these articles seem inconsistent.

They're inconsistent because there isn't a page talking about eukaryotic conjugation, which is a particular type of sexual reproduction. I'm not sure exactly how the term is used, unfortunately. In conjugating fungi and algae, filaments with opposite genders fuse together to form zygotes. In ciliates, cels of opposite genders line up and exchange pieces of their nuclei, but with rare exceptions stay separate. Hopefully someone more familiar with the full scope can expand on conjugation. Josh

[edit] Number of Species

This page should say how many species there are in the phylum. --Savant13 20:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why Protists?

If anyone is watching--why are these called "protists" (considered a kingdom, right?) if they are in the kingdom Chromalveolata (according to this same article)?--Sukkoth 20:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)