Definition of Protistas. Meaning of Protistas. Synonyms of Protistas

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Definition of Protistas

Protista
Protista Pro*tis"ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. prw`tistos first.] (Zo["o]l.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.
Protista
Protiston Pro*tis"ton, n.; pl. Protista. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Protista.

Meaning of Protistas from wikipedia

- kingdom known as Protista or Protoctista. With the advent of phylogenetic analysis and electron microscopy studies, the use of Protista as a formal taxon...
- proposed by Robert Whittaker in 1969, the protists make up a kingdom called Protista, composed of "organisms which are unicellular or unicellular-colonial and...
- United States have used a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria or Eubacteria), while textbooks in...
- plant taxa (1410 species, 55 subspecies, and 35 varieties). No fungi or protista have the classification, though only four species in those kingdoms have...
- kingdoms (not treated) Protista Prokaryota Monera Monera Bacteria Bacteria Archaea Archaea (2015) Eukaryota Protoctista Protista Eucarya "Protozoa" "Chromista"...
- then sometimes included within the similarly paraphyletic Protoctista or Protista. By the 1970s, it became usual to require that all taxa be monophyletic...
- single-celled eukaryotes, the Protista, in 1866. The eukaryotes thus came to be seen as four kingdoms: Kingdom Protista Kingdom Plantae Kingdom Fungi...
- endangered species (Plantae) Protists (kingdom Protista) — IUCN Red List endangered species (Protista) IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
- considered a protozoan by the International Society of Protistologists (see Protista, below). Molecular analysis of Zygomycota has found it to be polyphyletic...
- animal phylum, sponges. The protozoa were later moved to the former kingdom Protista, leaving only the Metazoa as a synonym of Animalia. The human po****tion...