This wonderful genealogy stands thus: 1. monera.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
The state of unorganized protoplasm which Haeckel named the monera, that precedes the development of that architect of life, the cell, can hardly be more than one remove from inert matter.
"The Breath of Life"
John Burroughs
If I am to believe the evolutionists, the various game-hunting Wasps are descended from a small number of types, which are themselves derived, by an incalculable number of concatenations, from a few amoebae, a few monera and lastly from the first clot of protoplasm which was casually condensed.
"More Hunting Wasps"
J. Henri Fabre