Trypanosoma is basically a monophyletic from the class Kinetoplastida. These are a group of unicellular parasitic protozoa. The characteristics of Trypanosoma are as follows:
- These are unicellular organisms.
- They have cock-screw like motion.
- They infect a number of hosts and can cause different diseases like sleeping sickness in humans.
- It has a mitochondrial genome called Kinetoplast.
- They are a classic model of antigenic variation.
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