Kingdom
The Kingdom is the topmost of the main divisions/ranks used in biological classification of organisms. Many scientists recognise five kingdoms in which all life on earth is divided:
- Animalia
- Plantae
- Fungi
- Protista
- Prokaryota/Monera
However, increasingly, the view is to split the Prokaryota into Archaea and Bacteria making six kingdoms.
Other names for (or types of) Kingdom include:
- Regnum
Related terms
- Binomial naming system
- Biological classification
- Class
- Family
- Genus
- Linnaeus
- Order
- Phylum
- Species
- Subspecies
- Taxonomy
- Zoology
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