Protista/protists

PROTIST A unicellular nucleate organism a primitive type or relatively primitive type, of organism always having nucleate cells it may be distinctly animal-like, distinctly plant-like, or they may have characteristics ordinarily associated with both plants and animals any member of the kingdom Protista. 

Interestingly, back during the beginnings of the 1900s, British physician J. Jackson Clarke had contributed Protozoa and Disease (1912) and Protists and Disease (1922) (the term protists signifying the unicellular organisms now collectively called Protista, which consist of both protozoans and unicellular plants). This will be discussed further in a later chapter. 

Protist A unicellular eukaryotic organism that is a member of the kingdom Protista. 

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