The six kingdom classification was proposed by Carl Woese in 1990. It divides cellular life forms into archea, bacteria and eukarya domains. This classification emphasizes the separation of prokaryotes into two groups, Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. Woese argued that on the basis of differences in 16 S rRNA genes, these two groups and the eukaryotes each arose separately from an ancestor with poorly developed genetic machinery, often called a progenote. Thus the six kingdom classification has the following kingdoms:
Kingdom Archaebacteria
Kingdom Eubacteria
Kingdom Protista
Kingdom Fungi
Kingdom Plantae
Kingdom Animalia