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• Protista, division Protista go
  eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae
  
• Thallophyta go
  used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae
  
• Tracheophyta, division Tracheophyta go
  in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants
  
• Bryophyta, division Bryophyta go
  a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms
  
• Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta go
  containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns
  
• Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta go
  seed plants
  
• Phanerogamae go
  in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants
  
• Cryptogamia go
  in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
  
• Pteropsida, subdivision Pteropsida go
  used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae
  
• Zygomycota, subdivision Zygomycota, Zygomycotina, subdivision Zygomycotina go
  division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores
  
• Myxomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota go
  slime molds
  
• Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina go
  fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile
  
• Lichenes, division Lichenes go
  comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae
  
• Eumycota, division Eumycota go
  true fungi
  
• Deuteromycota, subdivision Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, Fungi imperfecti, subdivision Deuteromycotina go
  large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known
  
• Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina go
  comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium
  
• Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina go
  a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes
  
• Lycophyta go
  used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses