Question

Who Discovered Monera?

Answer 1

Monera was first proposed as a separate group of organisms by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. He included a few eukaryotic organisms too along with bacteria in his Monera phylum.

1. Later in Whittaker’s five kingdom classification, Monera was one of the kingdoms, which included all the prokaryotes such as bacteria, cyanobacteria, etc.
2. Monera is the kingdom of prokaryotic organisms.
3. Kingdom Monera includes non-nucleated unicellular organisms. They are prokaryotes.
4. They have a cell wall. They have no membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria, golgi complex. They lack a true nucleus.
5. Instead, they have nucleoid, genetic material without a nuclear membrane.
6. This kingdom includes bacteria, cyanophyceae (Blue-Green algae), nitrogen-fixing organisms etc.