ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROTOCTIST
From New Latin protoctista, perhaps from Greek prototokos first born.
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BUSIER CELLS Protoctist cells, then — for convenience, let's think of them as
individual protists — are bigger and fuller than bacteria. But they have another
obvious difference. Protists are also more lively than bacteria. It is not just that
protists ...
These are the moneran kingdom and protoctist kingdom. Monerans are tiny,
single- celled organisms that have no distinct nucleus. (The nucleus is the control
center of the cell.) All protoctists, like monerans, are also single-celled organisms,
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Illustrated Glossary of Protoctista: Vocabulary of the ...
Access to Protoctist Information: Toward a Database A Prototype for the Protoctist
Knowledge Base Compact Disc player. The protoctist kingdom encompasses an
incredibly diverse group of organisms, including species with and without ...
Lynn Margulis, Heather I. McKhann, Lorraine Olendzenski, 1993
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Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans, and Life
The name protoctist was coined by John Hogg in 1 861 to describe "all the lower
creatures, or the primary organic beings: Photophyta ... having more the nature of
plants, and Proinzoa ... having rather the nature of animals." The five-kingdom ...
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Protoctist Glossary: An Illustrated Reference Guide to Terms ...
The second includes over 1,300 taxa names and descriptions. Hyperlinking of the text allows for easy point-and-click transfer from one glossary to the other.
Lynn Margulis, H.I. McKhann, Lorraine Olendzenski, 199
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Kingdoms and Domains: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of ...
The major protoctist groups, described here as phyla in one of eight
subkingdoms, are so distinct as to deserve kingdom status in the minds of some
authors. See the forthcoming second edition of Handbook of Pro- toctista (
Margulis and ...
Lynn Margulis, Michael J Chapman, 2009
The ungainly name "protoctist" was introduced by an English naturalist with an
equally unenviable name: Hogg. John Hogg (1800- 1861) set forth his views in
an article published in 1861 , just before he died: "On the Distinctions of a Plant
and ...
Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, 1995
No less than 10 different protoctist phyla form siliceous mineralized hard parts,
primarily, but not exclusively, for skeletal construction. The protoctists, for reasons
that remain obscure, form sulfate minerals more extensively than the other ...
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences California Institute of Technology Heinz A. Lowenstam Professor Emeritus, Isotope Department Weizmann Institute of Science Stephen Weiner Associate Professor, Rehovot, 1989
Introduction. There are several different ways of classifying living things. In this
book we shall divide them into five kingdoms: Prokaryote Kingdom, Protoctist
Kingdom, Fungus Kingdom, Plant Kingdom, Animal Kingdom. Most living things ...
Michael Roberts, Neil Ingram, 2001
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Early Life: Evolution on the Precambrian Earth
Traditional System and the Whittaker Five-Kingdom System of Classification
Compared* Traditional Five Kingdoms Escherichia coli (gut bacterium) Plant
Moneran (Prokaryota) Euglena (swimming alga) Plant /Animal Protoctist
Ochromonas ...
Lynn Margulis, Michael Dolan, 2002
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These other organisms are protoctists and fungi. Protoctists constitute a diverse group that includes our animal ancestors, as well as seaweeds, ciliates, slime ... «Scientific American, Nov 11»
