(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.Division Rhodophyta: alternatives and connections
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Division Rhodophyta
lower plants; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae
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(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any family of amphibians
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any genus of amphibians
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the order of animals
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any of the arthropods
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of arthropods
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a family of bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.Words connected by meaning
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primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, alg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lower, plants, mostly, marine, littoral.Explore Academic Dictionary
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