robert whittaker introduced the five kingdom system of classification.
robert whittaker introduced the five kingdom system of classification.
who introduced the five kingdom system of classification?
robert whittaker
since 1969, life on earth was classified into five kingdoms, as introduced by robert whittaker. margulis became the most important supporter, as well as critic – while supporting parts, she was the first to recognize the limitations of whittaker's classification of microbes. but later discoveries of new organisms, such as archaea, and emergence of molecular taxonomy challenged the concept. by the mid-2000s, most scientists began to agree that there are more than five kingdoms. margulis became the most important defender of the five kingdom classification. she rejected the three-domain system introduced by carl woese in 1990, which gained wide acceptance. she introduced a modified classification by which all life forms, including the newly discovered, could be integrated into the classical five kingdoms. according to her the main problem, archaea, falls under the kingdom prokaryotae alongside bacteria (in contrast to the three-domain system, which treats archaea as a higher taxon than kingdom, or the six-kingdom system, which holds that it is a separate kingdom). her concept is given in detail in her book "five kingdoms", written with karlene v. schwartz. it is mainly because of her that this five-kingdom system survives.
lynn margulis
traditionally, living things have been divided into five kingdoms: monera; protista; fungi; plantae; animalia. however, many scientists now consider this five-kingdom system outdated. modern alternative classification systems generally begin with the three-domain system: archaea (originally archaebacteria); bacteria (originally eubacteria) and eukaryota (including protists, fungi, plants, and animals). these domains reflect whether the cells have nuclei or not, as well as differences in the chemical composition of key biomolecules such as ribosomes.









































further, each kingdom is broken down recursively until each species is separately classified. the order is:









































domain; kingdom; phylum; class; order; family; genus; species.
biology