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Haeckel's original (1866) conception of the three kingdoms of life, including the new kingdom Protista. Notice the inclusion of the cyanobacterium Nostoc with plants. In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek , often called the "father of microscopy", sent the Royal Society of London a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms.
Originally, Linnaeus established three kingdoms in his scheme, namely for Plants, Animals and an additional group for minerals, which has long since been abandoned. Since then, various life forms have been moved into three new kingdoms: Monera, for prokaryotes (i.e., bacteria); Protista, for protozoans and most algae; and Fungi.
The first two kingdoms of life: Plantae and Animalia [ edit ] The use of the word " kingdom " to describe a major branch of the living world dates as far back as Linnaeus (1707–1778) who divided the natural world into three kingdoms: animal , vegetable , and mineral .
Taxonomic rank is a classification level in biological taxonomy, such as species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom.
Life is divided into domains, which are subdivided into further groups. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. In biological taxonomy , a domain ( / d ə ˈ m eɪ n / or / d oʊ ˈ m eɪ n / ) ( Latin : regio [ 1 ] ), also dominion , [ 2 ] superkingdom , realm , or empire , is the highest taxonomic ...
The idea of a tree of life arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower into higher forms of life (such as in the Great Chain of Being).Early representations of "branching" phylogenetic trees include a "paleontological chart" showing the geological relationships among plants and animals in the book Elementary Geology, by Edward Hitchcock (first edition: 1840).