Protoorganism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

    "This tree represents a complex “phylogeny” of macromolecules all within one ancestral lineage, before the proto-organism."

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"This tree represents a complex “phylogeny” of macromolecules all within one ancestral lineage, before the proto-organism."

Etymology

From proto- + organism.

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