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Who proposed the five kingdom system of classification and on what basis?

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Five kingdom of classification was proposed by RH Whittaker in 1969. He divided all living organisms into five kingdoms based on following features:
  • Complexity of cell structures
  • Complexity of body structures
  • Mode of obtaining nutrition
  • Ecological life style
  • Phylogenetic relationship
The five kingdoms proposed by him were:
  1. Kingdom Monera which includes prokaryotes.
  2. Kingdom Protista which includes unicellular eukaryotes.
  3. Kingdom Fungi which includes fungi.
  4. Kingdom Plantae which includes multicellular eukaryotic plants.
  5. Kingdom Animalia which includes multicellular animals.

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