Monera -
In
1969
R.H.
Whittaker
proposed
a
five
kingdom
system
of
classification
of
living
world
.
He
proposed
a
separate
kingdom,
Monera
for
the
true
prokaryotes
:
the
bacteria
and
cyanobacteria.
Higher
protists
were
distributed
among
two
kingdoms.
Algae and protozoa were grouped under separate kingdom, Protista, whereas fungi given the rank of an independent kingdom. The two other kingdoms were the Plantae and Animalia for traditional plants and animals respectively.
All living organisms are best thought of today as being members of one of the five kingdoms;
1. Monera (prokaryotes. bacteria). This includes Eubacteria (including rickettsiae. chlamydiae, mycoplasmas), Archaebacteria, and the Oxyphotobacteria (i.e. oxygen-yielding photosynthetic blue-green bacteria, also called cyanobacteria).
