Protoctista — noun in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct… … Useful english dictionary
Protoctista — Als Protoctisten (Protoctista) werden alle eukaryotischen Lebewesen bezeichnet, die nicht zu den Tieren, Pflanzen oder Pilzen gehören. Es ist demnach ein systematischer Begriff im Rang eines Reichs, ist allerdings kein Taxon im phylogenetischen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Protoctista — A kingdom of eukaryotes incorporating the algae and the protozoans that comprise the presumed ancestral stocks of the fungi, plant, and animal kingdoms; they lack the developmental pattern stemming from a blastula, typical of animals, the pattern … Medical dictionary
Cryptophyta — noun a phylum in the kingdom Protoctista • Syn: ↑phylum Cryptophyta • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Protoctista, ↑kingdom Protoctista • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
phylum Cryptophyta — noun a phylum in the kingdom Protoctista • Syn: ↑Cryptophyta • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Protoctista, ↑kingdom Protoctista • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
History of phycology — Phycology is the study of algae and history is the study of the past human activities. Human interest in plants as food goes back into the origins of the species ( Homo sapiens ) and knowledge of algae can be traced back more than two thousand… … Wikipedia
protoctist family — noun any of the families of Protoctista • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Globigerinidae, ↑family Globigerinidae, ↑Nummulitidae, ↑family Nummulitidae, ↑Arcellidae, ↑fami … Useful english dictionary
protoctist genus — noun any genus of Protoctista • Hypernyms: ↑genus • Hyponyms: ↑genus Amoeba, ↑Endamoeba, ↑genus Endamoeba, ↑genus Globigerina, ↑genus Arcella, ↑genus Difflugia, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Chlorophyta — noun large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants • Syn: ↑division … Useful english dictionary
Chrysophyta — noun mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow green and golden brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed … Useful english dictionary
