PROTISTA

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PROTISTA , a name invented by Ernst

Haeckel

HAECKEL, ERNST HEINRICH (1834- )

(Generelle Mar phologie der Organismen, 1866) to denote a

group

GROUP

of organisms supposed to be intermediate between the

animal

ANIMAL
ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

and vegetable kingdoms. As knowledge advanced the precise limits of the

group

GROUP

shifted, and

Haeckel

HAECKEL, ERNST HEINRICH (1834- )

himself, in successive publications, placed different sets of organisms within it, at one

time

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

proposing to include all unicellular animals and

plants

PLANTS

, making it a third

kingdom

KINGDOM

equivalent to the

animal

ANIMAL
ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

and vegetable kingdoms. Partly because the

term

TERM

represented an interpretation rather than an objective set of facts, the word Protista has not been generally accepted for use in

classification

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

, and, whilst recognizing that the limits of the animal and plant kingdoms are not sharply defined,

modern

MODERN

systematists refrain from associating these doubtfully placed organisms simply because of the dubiety of their position. (See PROTOZOA.)

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