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  2. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Combined with the five-kingdom model, this created a six-kingdom model, where the kingdom Monera is replaced by the kingdoms Bacteria and Archaea. [16] This six-kingdom model is commonly used in recent US high school biology textbooks, but has received criticism for compromising the current scientific consensus. [ 13 ]

  3. Cavalier-Smith's system of classification - Wikipedia

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    By 1998, Cavalier-Smith had reduced the total number of kingdoms from eight to six: Animalia, Protozoa, Fungi, Plantae (including red and green algae), Chromista, and Bacteria. [44] Five of Cavalier-Smith's kingdoms are classified as eukaryotes as shown in the following scheme: Eubacteria; Neomura. Archaebacteria; Eukaryotes. Kingdom Protozoa

  4. Domain (biology) - Wikipedia

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    3 Characteristics of the three domains. ... (including a nucleus containing genetic material) and are represented by five kingdoms: Plantae, Protozoa, ...

  5. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    ] Linnaeus used this as the top rank, dividing the physical world into the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms. As advances in microscopy made the classification of microorganisms possible, the number of kingdoms increased, five- and six-kingdom systems being the most common. Domains are a relatively new grouping.

  6. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    Cladistics is a method of classification of life forms according to the proportion of characteristics that they have in common (called synapomorphies). It is assumed that the higher the proportion of characteristics that two organisms share, the more recently they both came from a common ancestor.

  7. Three-domain system - Wikipedia

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    The three-domain system adds a level of classification (the domains) "above" the kingdoms present in the previously used five- or six-kingdom systems.This classification system recognizes the fundamental divide between the two prokaryotic groups, insofar as Archaea appear to be more closely related to eukaryotes than they are to other prokaryotes – bacteria-like organisms with no cell nucleus.

  8. Phylum - Wikipedia

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    The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, "race, stock"), related to phyle (φυλή, "tribe, clan"). [4] [5] Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and ...

  9. Linnaean taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Species can be placed in a ranked hierarchy, starting with either domains or kingdoms. Domains are divided into kingdoms . Kingdoms are divided into phyla (singular: phylum ) — for animals ; the term division , used for plants and fungi , is equivalent to the rank of phylum (and the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature allows ...