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Bacteria
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek (bakt?ría, "rod")
Proper noun
Bacteria
- (in the three-domain system) A taxonomic domain comprising the single kingdom also called Bacteria, containing about 25 phyla.
- (in the two-empire or two-superkingdom systems) A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Prokaryota - single-cell organisms (the bacteria); once divided into the Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.[1]
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Hyponyms
- (kingdom): Negibacteria, Posibacteria - subkingdoms
- Acidobacteria, Aquificae, Armatimonadetes, Bacteroidetes, Caldiserica, Chlamydiae, Chlorobi, Chrysiogenetes, Cyanobacteria, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus, Dictyoglomi, Elusimicrobia, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Nitrospira, Planctomycetes, Proteobacteria, Spirochaetae, Synergistetes, Thermodesulfobacteria, Thermotogae, Verrucomicrobia - phyla in Negibacteria
- Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Tenericutes - phyla in Posibacteria[1]
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