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Definition of protophyta

Protophyta
Protophyte Pro"to*phyte, n. [Proto- + Gr. ? a plant.] (Bot.) Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division. Note: The protophytes (Protophyta) are by some botanists considered an independent branch or class of the vegetable kingdom, and made to include the lowest forms of both fungi and alg[ae], as slime molds, Bacteria, the nostocs, etc. Cf. Carpophyte, and O["o]phyte.

Meaning of protophyta from wikipedia

- in 1836. This definition of Thallophyta is approximately equivalent to Protophyta, which has always been a loosely defined group. In the Lindley system...
- Protophyta is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Turner in 1910. Protophyta benigna Turner, 1939 Protophyta castanea (Lower, 1898)...
- include: Algae, which are photosynthetic protists. Traditionally called "protophyta", they are found within most of the big evolutionary lineages or supergroups...
- Protophyta benigna is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1939. It is found in Queensland, Australia. Wikimedia...
- Protophyta castanea is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1898. It is found in New South Wales, Australia. Wikimedia...
- while photosynthetic microorganisms and microscopic fungi—the so-called Protophyta—were ****igned to the Plants, and studied in departments of Botany. Criticism...
- reproduce solely by fission. It has been considered synonymous with the Protophyta of Sachs and the Monera of Haeckel. In modern taxonomy, it is equivalent...
- organisms were originally described separately in protozoa as animals and protophyta/thallophyta as plants, but were united by Ernst Haeckel in the kingdom...
- Outline Thallophyta Protophyta Hysterophyta Cormophyta Acrobrya Amphibrya Acramphibrya Conspectus Regio I. THALLOPHYTA Sectio I. Protophyta classis I. Algae...
- generally classified into four groups: Protozoa (primitive animals), Protophyta (primitive plants), Phytozoa (animal-like plants & plant-like animals)...