kingdom monera
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Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens;
Because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions (synset 101344517)is a type of: kingdom - the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animaliamember holonym:- moneran, moneron - organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
- division archaebacteria - in some classifications considered a kingdom
- division eubacteria - one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
- family lactobacillaceae, family lactobacteriaceae, lactobacillaceae, lactobacteriaceae - lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid
- phylum pyrrophyta, pyrrophyta - a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds
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