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Answer for the clue "Because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions ", 6 letters:
monera

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Monera \Mo*ne"ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mo`nos single.] (Zo["o]l.) The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the am[oe]bas, but are destitute of a nucleus. 2. (Biol.) One of the five kingdoms of living organisms in the five-kingdom ...

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n. (plural of moneron English)

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Monera ( Greek - μονήρης (monḗrēs), "single", "solitary") was a kingdom that contained unicellular organisms with a prokaryotic cell organization (having no nuclear membrane ), such as bacteria. The taxon Monera was first proposed as a phylum by Ernst Haeckel ...

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Haeckel represents the aggregate of a million moneras visibly covering the sea-bottom, but germinated from one invisible speck.