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archaebacteria

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

archaebacteria (domain Archaea) Organisms belonging to the kingdoms Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota; formerly these were grouped together as the kingdom Archaebacteria.

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