Question

What are the disadvantages of five-kingdom classification?

Answer 1

Five-kingdom classification:

1. Robert Whittaker proposed a five-level categorization scheme in 1969.
2. Animals, plants, fungus, protists, and monera are the five kingdoms of living things.

Disadvantages:

1. The virus's location is unknown.
2. Kingdom Protista encompasses creatures with various shapes, structures, and life cycles, and hence does not appear to be a legitimate classification.
3. Some species classified as Protista are not eukaryotic.
4. Slime moulds located under Protista differ significantly from the rest of Protista.
5. The three higher kingdoms, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia, appear to have descended from a variety of forebears.