Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of organisms of extreme simplicity, allied to the bacteria, and regarded by Haeckel as the oldest and most primitive of living beings.
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Those remarkable beings called the monera -- especially the chromacea and bacteria -- are specimens of these simple cytodes.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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