5 KINGDOM CLASSIFICATION

• Kingdom Monera
• Kingdom Protista
• Kingdom Plantae
• Kingdom Fungi
• Kingdom Animalia

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Robert Whittaker

Robert Harding Whittaker was

an American plant ecologist,
active in the 1950s to the 1970s.
He was the first to propose the
five kingdom classification of the
world's biota into the Animalia,
Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and
Monera in 1969.
Kingdom Monera
• Contains bacteria
• Single cell
• Called as prokaryotes
• Cell wall is not made up of cellulose
• Unicellular
• Can survive extreme temperature
Kingdom Protista
• Unicellular
• They are eukaryotes
• No chlorophyll
• Eg. Amoeba
• Found in water bodies
• Cant be seen through
naked eye
Kingdom Fungi
• No chlorophyll
• They are saprotrophs
• Nuclei is distributed inside cytoplasm
• Usually grows on food Item
• Fungi is aerobic
• E.g. Bread mould
Kingdom Plantae
• Second largest kingdom
• Multicellular
• They are eukaryotes
• Have chlorophyll
• Conducts photosynthesis
• Autotrophs
• There are over 250000 species