prokaryota

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So the monophylic clade of metazoa contains only multicellular liveforms, this also defines the mentioned outgroups of taxa from protozoa and prokaryota.

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The biggest break in life, she explained, was between the prokaryotes (cells with nucleoids: monera, prokaryota; archaebacteria, eubacteria) and eukaryotes (cells with nuclei: protoctista, fungi, plantae, animalia).

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