Kingdom (biology)
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Kingdom is the highest rank used in the biological taxonomy of all organisms. Each kingdom is split into phyla.
There are 5 kingdoms in taxonomy. Every living thing comes under one of these 5 kingdoms. They are:
Monera - the most simple living things.
Protista - bacteria with only one cell.
Fungi - mushrooms, mold and other fungi.
Plantae - all plants, such as trees and grass.
Animalia - all animals, including people.
Kingdom is the king in the mneomic, or a saying to help a person remember something, King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti.
[change] Summary
| Linnaeus 1735 2 kingdoms |
Haeckel 1866 3 kingdoms |
Chatton 1937 2 empires |
Copeland 1956 4 kingdoms |
Whittaker 1969 5 kingdoms |
Woese et al. 1977 6 kingdoms |
Woese et al. 1990[1] 3 domains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (not treated) | Protista | Prokaryota | Monera | Monera | Eubacteria | Bacteria |
| Archaebacteria | Archaea | |||||
| Eukaryota | Protoctista | Protista | Protista | Eukarya | ||
| Vegetabilia | Plantae | Fungi | Fungi | |||
| Plantae | Plantae | Plantae | ||||
| Animalia | Animalia | Animalia | Animalia | Animalia |
Sometimes entries in the table, which are next to each other, do not match perfectly. For example, Haeckel placed the red algae (Haeckel's Florideae; modern Florideophyceae) and blue-green algae (Haeckel's Archephyta; modern Cyanobacteria) in his Plantae, but in modern classifications they are considered protists and bacteria respectively. However, despite this and other failures of equivalence, the table gives a useful simplification.
[change] References
- ↑ Carl R. Woese, Otto Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis: "Towards a Natural System of Organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya", doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576
| Taxonomy rankings | |
|---|---|
| Ranks | Life • Domain • Kingdom • Phylum • Class • Order • Family • Genus • Species |
| Other | Divison • Subclass • Subspecies |
