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archaea

[noun]

(plural of archaeon) One of three domains of life on Earth (the other two being Bacteria and Eukaryota), consisting of single-celled organisms that are prokaryotes (lacking membrane-bound organelles), yet phylogenetically and biochemically are as distinct from the Bacterial domain as they are from Eukaryotes.


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