Image: Five Kingdoms of Life
This
view represents Earthly life as composed of 5 kingdoms, 4 of which are
eukaryotic, and the 5th, the monera (what we now call prokaryotes) at the base
of the tree. This view of life is
based on structural and functional analyses of organisms, and a proposed
evolutionary line in which life moved from simple to more complex, and smaller
to larger.
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