The Orthokaryotes (Cavalier-Smith 2017) are a proposed

Eukaryote Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bact ...

clade consisting of the Jakobea and the

Neokaryotes The neokaryotes (Cavalier-Smith 1993) are a proposed eukaryote clade consisting of the unikonts and the bikonts as sister of for instance the Jakobea. It arises because the Euglenozoa, Percolozoa, Tsukubea, and Jakobea are seen in this view a ...

. Together with its sister Discicristata it forms a basal Eukaryote clade. They are characterized by stacked

Golgi Golgi may refer to: *Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician and scientist after whom the following terms are named: **Golgi apparatus (also called the Golgi body, Golgi complex, or dictyosome), an organelle in a eukaryotic cell **Golgi tend ...

, orthogonal

centriole In cell biology a centriole is a cylindrical organelle composed mainly of a protein called tubulin. Centrioles are found in most eukaryotic cells, but are not present in conifers ( Pinophyta), flowering plants ( angiosperms) and most fungi, a ...

s, and two opposite posterior ciliary roots.

Taxonomy

A proposed cladogram is

References

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