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kingdom monera is mostly bacteria, then why it is called MONERA? What does it mean actually?

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Monera is one of the five kingdoms given by Whittaker. The word Monera is a Greek word that means simple and single. Thus, it is named so because this group consists of all unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that includes bacteria, cyanobacteria etc.

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