Domain of Eukaryota / Eukarya
(eukaryotes / eukaryans / all cellular organisms bearing a central, organized nucleus with DNA)
- comprises most of the species of life which have been documented by biologists and paleontologists as either living or deceased
- includes a wide variety of single-celled protists, all algae, most plankton, most molds, the green plants, and all animal-related kingdoms
- but does not include the primal, sub-nuclear, prokaryotic domains of Archaea and Bacteria – nor the enigmatic domain of Viruses
Read more about this topic: Taxonomy Of Commonly Fossilised Invertebrates
Famous quotes containing the words domain of and/or domain:
“The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
“In the domain of art there is no light without heat.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)