Schizophyte was a botanical classification proposed by Ferdinand Cohn to describe the class of primitive "plants" that reproduce solely by fission.[1] It has been considered synonymous with the Protophyta of Sachs and the Monera of Haeckel.[2] In modern taxonomy, it is equivalent with the concept of prokaryotes, single-celled microorganisms with no nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles, now divided into the domains Bacteria and Archaea.
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- ^ Cohn, Ferdinand (1872), "Organismen in der Pockenlymphe" (PDF), Virchows Archiv (in German), 55 (1): 229–238, doi:10.1007/bf01937204
- ^ Gibbons, N.E.; Murray, R.G.E. (1978). "Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 28 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1099/00207713-28-1-1.
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