Name the kingdom to which these organisms belong according to Whittaker.
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Whittaker currently accepted the earlier decision of Copeland to place the prokaryotic organisms into the individual kingdom.
When it comes to the prokaryotic kingdom, it is another place where Monera currently joined kingdoms including Protista, Plantae, Animalia, and Fungi in the last version of the Whittaker's system
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In order to introduce and redevelop thee need for a proper induced phylogenetic classification, prominent scientist and an American Taxonomist Robert Harding Whittaker (in 1969), divided all the organisms into five distinguished kingdoms and proposed it as the "Five Kingdom Taxonomic Classification" where the viruses were a exception and a borderline (neither living or nonliving beings) and maintained itself till 1990 after its eventual withdrawal with high objections and criticisms.
Robert Harding Whittaker's Five Kingdom classification included Kingdom Monera or a Kingdom of procaryotes, Kingdom Protista or the kingdom of Unicellular Eucaryotes, Kingdom Fungi or the Kingdom of Multicellular Decomposers, Kingdom Plantae or the kingdom of Multicellular Producers or commonly as Metaphyta showing metaphysical properties at a high and lower level, Kingdom Animalia or the highest level attained by a organisational level and are the kingdom of Multicellular Consumers or Metazoa showing higher metaphysical properties in a high level.
Robert Harding Whittaker used a five Kingdom criterion system for delimiting the different kingdoms involved in it. The criteria was;
a) The total complexity involved within a structural cell, by differentiating as prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
b) Totalling the Complexity in a bodily structure or a proper provided structural organisation, differentiating either as a unicellular or multicellular.
c) The Mode of Nutrition acquired by the organism which is divergent throughout the multicellular kingdoms, such as, photoautotrophy in Kingdom plantae behaving as photoautotrophs, absorptive heterotrophy present in fungi and ingestive heterotrophy shown in animalia. Here, Photoautotrophic nutrition is also regarded as holophytic nutrition while the counterpart, heterotrophy is regarded as holozoic nutrition. Absorptive methods in heterotrophy is saprobiotic or in terms of that saprophytic nutrition.
d) Ecological life style plays a important yet critical role to determine ones status attained in the food Web or food chain in the whole ecosystem or biome. Such as, the life style of producers or plantae, decomposers position for fungi and consumer level for animalia.
e) The final criteria was Phylogenetic relationships it maintains throughout the ecosystem and how it varies from one ecosystem to another and how it affects the biome and the biodiversity as a whole. Like the environmental demands maintained by the prokaryotes and eukaryotic catalases are linked together for a group of animal enzymes like Gram positive bacteria Listeria seeligeri, Gamma-proteobacteria, etc. have shown some Phylogenetic relationships and linked themselves for speciation and are more or less closely related to their ancestral species in a wide diversity.
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