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vegetable kingdoms. As knowledge advanced the precise limits of the group shifted, and Haeckel himself, in successive publications, placed different sets of organisms within it, at one See also:

time proposing to include all unicellular animals and See also:

PLANTS

plants, making it a third See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Partly because the See also:

TERM

term represented an See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation rather than an See also:

OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective set of facts, the word Protista has not been generally accepted for use in See also:

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification, and, whilst recognizing that the limits of the animal and plant kingdoms are not sharply defined, See also:

MODERN

modern systematists refrain from associating these doubtfully placed organisms simply because of the dubiety of their position.

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