The
Parazoa are an ancestral subkingdom of the
animals, literally translated as 'beside the animals.' Parazoans differ from their
choanoflagellate ancestors in that they are macroscopic and have
differentiated cells, but unlike "true animals" (
Metazoa), they do not have
tissues. The only surviving parazoans are the
sponges.
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