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Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 “”


   


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Common Names


"Eukaryotes" is typically regarded as the proper name for these organisms in the British Isles and the East Hemisphere, while American authors generally speak of "eucaryotes".  It can be argued that the "k" is better as it reflects the original Greek root word.

 

Latin Synonyms


Eucarya Woese

Eukarya

 

Linnaean Rank


Domain

 

Ancestral Phylogeny and Taxonomy


 

Terrabiota Acytota Viruses
Cytota Bacteria
Neomura Archaea
Eukaryota

 

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Lineage

Terrabiota, Cytota, Neomura

 

Descendant Phylogeny and Taxonomy


 

Eukaryota Bikonta Rhizaria
Excavata
Chromalveolata
Archaeplastida Glaucophyta
Rhodophyta
Plantae
Apusozoa
Unikonta Amoebozoa
Opisthokonta   Fungi
Cristidiscoidea
  Mesomycetozoea
Animalia
Eukaryota inc sed. Collodictyonida
Centrohelida

 

Explanation of phylogenetic trees

 

 

 

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