Prokaryota

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “early”) + κάρυον (káruon, “nucleus”, literally “kernel”).

Proper noun

Prokaryota

  1. A taxonomic superkingdom or domain - all organisms whose cells do not contain a nucleus.

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References
  1. Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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