HyperDic: kingdom_prokaryotae

English > 1 sense of the expression kingdom Prokaryotae:
NOUNanimalkingdom Prokaryotae, Monera, kingdom Monera, Prokayotaeprokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens
English > kingdom Prokaryotae: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningprokaryotic 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.
SynonymsMonera, kingdom Monera, Prokayotae
MembersLactobacillaceae, family Lactobacillaceae, Lactobacteriaceae, family Lactobacteriaceaelactic acid bacteria and important pathogens
Pyrrophyta, phylum PyrrophytaA division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds
division ArchaebacteriaIn some classifications considered a kingdom
division Eubacteriaone-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
moneran, moneronorganisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
BroaderkingdomThe highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped
Spanishreino monera
CatalanMonera

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