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nounprokaryotic 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
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- kingdom the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
- division eubacteria one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
- moneran of or relating to the Monera