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proto-organism
proto-organism n. 
/ˌprəʊtəʊˈɔːɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/,
Brit. /ˌprəʊtəʊˈɔːɡənɪz(ə)m/
, /ˌprəʊtəʊˈɔːɡənɪz(ə)m//ˌprəʊtəʊˈɔːɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊˈɔrɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/
[after French proto-organisme (1860 or earlier)] Biology a primordial or primitive organism; (in early use) †a microorganism (obsolete)./ˌproʊdoʊˈɔrɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/ΘΚΠ
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monad1826
proto-organism1860
cytode1869
Protista1869
protist1873
ephemeromorph1874
protistan1890
1860 Lancet 25 Aug. 201/1 The doctrine of spontaneous generation.., revived since 1858 by Professor Pouchet, and communicated to the Academy in his note ‘On the Proto-organisms, both Vegetable and Animal, produced spontaneously in Artificial Air and in Oxygen Gas’.
1978 Sci. Amer. Sept. 75/1 If there were some way for the droplets to make more phosphorylase molecules (and it is a very big if), such coacervates would be examples of self-perpetuating protoorganisms with a one-step energy metabolism.
2005 Mutation Res. 569 1/2 Where was the evolutionary pressure to push the establishment of these various pathways in the original proto-organisms?
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