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:

1. Animalia
2. Plantae
3. Fungi
4. Protista
5. 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

Related groups of terms

• Classification
• General biology

Related pages on this web site

• Biodiversity
• Insect classification

See other words beginning with K