Hierarchy of group or order to explain the Taxonomy (the study of the classification of the organisms) are:
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum or division
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
- The domain is the highest order and species is the lowest order category.
- Biologists, such as Ernst Haeckel (1894), Robert Whittaker (1959) and Carl Woese (1977) has classified all living organisms into broad categories called kingdoms.
- The five-kingdom classification was proposed by Whittaker which is Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia.
- The naming culture ( of the different organisms) practiced uniformly across the world is called binomial nomenclature.
- Rules of nomenclature:
- It consists of two words, the first denotes the genus (of the organism ) always begins with a capital letter and the second denotes the species , with a lower case letter.
- It is also known as a scientific name and must be written in Italic.
- For example- Human is Homo sapiens, the Tiger is Panthera tigris, etc.
- It makes our work easy and convenient and provides data that can be used universally to find or look for any species whether plants or animals.
- Cells are fundamentally categorized into Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes where Eukaryotes are complex in structure while prokaryotes are the smallest and simplest in structure.
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