One of the five kingdoms of living organisms in the five-kingdom classification, consisting of microscopic usually monocellular prokaryotic organisms that mostly reproduce by asexual fission, sporulation, or budding; it includes the bacteria and cyanophytes (blue-green algae), as well as certain primitive pathogenic microbes, such as the Rickettsias.
See bacteria, cyanobacteria.
the kingdom that includes the bacteria and the cyanobacteria; prokaryotic organisms.
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
One of the 5 Kingdoms, which contains all the prokaryotes. All members are single-celled and microscopic, and are commonly called "bacteria".
Prokaryotic kingdom that includes (in the most widely accepted classification system) archaebacteria, eubacteria, and cyanobacteria. Members of this kingdom were among the first forms of life over 3.5 billion years ago.
One of the five Kingdoms which contains all prokaryotes (see). It contains archaebacteria, eubacteria and cyanobacteria. The first life form emerged over 3,500 Mya were the members of this Kingdom from which eukaryotes (see) evolved.
Group, at the kingdom level, in the classification of life. Unicellular organisms that have a prokaryotic cell type.
Monera is a prokaryotic kingdom (separate from the plant kingdom) that includes the earliest forms of life on Earth, like archaebacteria (the oldest types of bacteria), eubacteria (like E. coli), and cyanobacteria (blue-green bacteria).
Monera is an obsolete biological kingdom that comprised most living things with a prokaryotic cell organization (see Bacteria and Archaea). For this reason the kingdom was sometimes called Prokaryotae. Prior to its creation these were treated as two separate divisions of plants: the Schizomycetes or bacteria, considered fungi, and the Cyanophyta or blue-green algae.
