How To Use protoctist In A Sentence
- The biggest break in life, she explained, was between the prokaryotes (cells with nucleoids: monera, prokaryota; archaebacteria, eubacteria) and eukaryotes (cells with nuclei: protoctista, fungi, plantae, animalia). Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb
- In recent years, eukaryotes have been broken down into four kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, and protists or protoctists.
- It was just in 1980 that the minute protoctists in the ‘picoplankton’ of polar waters were discovered.
- Those who study protoctists, nucleated microorganisms and their immediate descendants exclusive of animals, plants and fungi, are disenfranchised.
- Most nations of the world do not have complete inventories of their flora and fauna, let alone their fungi, protoctists, and prokaryotes (microorganisms).
- Not only bacteria, but also archaea, small fungi, and anaerobic (without oxygen) protoctists just don't fit the ‘species concept’ as written above.
