What is kingdom in biology?
Robert whitaker proposed Five kingdom classification, which includes five kingdoms namely-Monera, protista, fugi, plantae and animalia.
These kingdoms are nothing but the highest taxonomic ranks. Organisms were categorized as per their characteristic features, these groups are formed on basis of level of similarities. Amongst all the categories, kingdoms is the top most hierarchy.
Kingdom is further composed of phylum for animals and divisions for plants.
In the field of taxonomy,kingdom is used to classify the organisms.
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- What is kingdoms and give its example?
Robert Whitaker proposed Five kingdom classification, which includes five kingdoms namely-Monera, protista, fugi, plantae and animalia.
These kingdoms are nothing but the highest taxonomic ranks. Organisms were categorized as per their characteristic features, these groups are formed on the basis of level of similarities. Amongst all the categories, kingdoms is the top most hierarchy.
Kingdom is further composed of phylum for animals and divisions for plants.
In the field of taxonomy,kingdom is used to classify the organisms.
The kingdom monera consists of all the bacteria, kingdom protista consists of simple unicellular eukaryotic organisms, kingdom fungi include all the groups of fungi, plantae is composed all plant groups and finally the animal kingdom is comp[osed of all the animal groups.
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