THALLOPHYTE

common name for members of the Thallophyta (or Thallobionta), a taxonomic group in some archaic classification systems that comprised algae, fungi, and lichens. The thallophytes were considered lower plants and were grouped together because of they consisted of one cell or a relatively undifferentiated mass of cells called a thallus, instead of having an organized plant body (stem, root, and leaf).

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A Short History of the Plant Sciences
Book by Howard S. Reed; Chronica Botanica, 1942
Subjects: Botany--History
...indeterminate series of asexual forms of the thallophytes to one which remains inseparably connected...split hairs about the relations of thallophytes to the higher plants, he carried the...neutral or asexual generations of the thallophyte. In the next few years there was lively...
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Evolution and Genetics: The Modern Theory of Evolution
Book by David J. Merrell, Olivia Jensen Ingersoll; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962
Subjects: Evolution (Biology), Genetics
...between the pteridophytes and the spermatophytes. The terms thallophyte, algae, and fungi are, however, useful ones and undoubtedly...represent artificial groupings. The phyla considered as thallophytes are plants that lack true roots, stems, and leaves or to...
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Grand Canyon Geology
Book by Stanley S. Beus, Michael Morales; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Geology--Arizona--Grand Canyon
...of Nankoweap Butte in eastern Grand Canyon (Schopf et al. 1973). The spheroidal forms probably are related to coccoid blue-green algae; the filaments bear a striking resemblance to Eomycetopsis, a thallophyte from bedded cherts
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The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life
Book by Mark A. S. Mcmenamin; Columbia University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fossils, Paleontology--Precambrian
that these early autotrophs were thallophyte algae and apparently missed Fischer's insight concerning the Ediacarans. 7 It is instructive to examine the Hedgpeth and Glaessner...
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Composition of Scientific Words: A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of Materials for the Practice of Logotechnics
Book by Roland Wilbur Brown; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1956
Subjects: English Language--Foreign Elements--Greek, English Language--Foreign Elements--Latin, English Language--Word Formation--Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc, Science--Terminology
...space between thumb and forefinger; see measure lichanos, Gr. forefinger; see finger lichen < Gr. leichen, -os, m. a thallophyte composed of an alga and a fungus: lichenic, lichenography, lichenoid, Gracilaria lichenoides a red alga, source of agar...
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Thallophyte
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THALLOPHYTE common name for members of the Thallophyta (or Thallobionta), a taxonomic...classification systems that comprised algae , fungi , and lichens . The thallophytes were considered lower plants and were grouped together because of they...


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