Complete the five-kingdom method of classification using living organism prokaryotes, eukaryotes, multicellular, unicellular, Protista, animals, plants, and fungi.

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Give reasons for the following.

(i) Prokaryotes are unicellular, while eukaryotes can be unicellular or multicellular.

(ii) Locomotion is the ultimate criteria for classifying living organisms as plants and animals.

Q. Why does yeast belong to kingdom fungi though it is not multicellular? According to our NCERT book the features of fungi are multicellular eukaryotic organisms possessing cell wall and protista are eukaryotic unicellular organisms. So from these statements, yeast must be placed in kingdom protista since it is unicellular eukaryotic.

Q. In Whittaker's five kingdom classification, non-nucleated, unicellular organisms/prokaryotes are included under:

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a. Five kingdom classification of living organisms is given by ____________.
b. Basic smallest unit of classification is_________________.
c. Prokaryotes are grouped in Kingdom ____________.
d. Common fungi used in preparing the bread is _____________.

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