He suggested Protista as a third taxonomic kingdom, in addition to Plantae and Animalia, consisting of all "primitive forms" of organisms, including bacteria (International Microbiology, 1999).

They were placed in the protist kingdom on the tree of life mostly based on observations of their size and shape. You may like Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life ...

They were placed in the protist kingdom on the tree of life mostly based on observations of their size and shape. In this study, published March 21 in the journal Molecular Biology Evolution, ...

Schoolroom trees of life for much of the 20th century and sometimes afterward often relegated the protist kingdom to some lower branch beneath the glorious crown of mostly multicellular kingdoms.

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They were placed in the protist kingdom on the tree of life mostly based on observations of their size and shape. In this study, published March 21 in the journal Molecular Biology Evolution, ...