Q. Which scientist classified the creatures into five kingdoms?
Solution:
Robert H. Whitaker classified the creatures into five kingdoms
Kingdom 1-Monera (single-celled organisms without bacteria-nucleus)
Kingdom 2 – Protista (single-celled organisms with amoeba-nuclei)
Kingdom 3 – Fungi (fungi – single-celled organisms / multicellular organisms that cannot move)
Kingdom 4 – Plante (plants – mammals with no motility)
Kingdom 5 – Animalia (Animals – Parasitic and Movable Multicellulars)
The kingdom of Monira was divided into two kingdoms, Archaea and Bacteria, and a domain of six taxonomic schemes was devised by Carl Woese.
Domain Bacteria – Kingdom Bacteria
DomainArchia-Kingdom Arcia
Domain Eucaria – Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Fungai, Kingdom Plante, Kingdom Animalia.
John Ray (England) – More than 18000 plants were recorded in the book Historia Generalis Plantarum .The term “species” was first used.
Carl Linnaeus (Sweden) – The father of modern taxonomy, devised a two-name scheme for giving living things a scientific name.
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