Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Kingdoms

When classifying life, a kingdom is the second broadest in taxonomy after domain. The five types of kingdoms that exist are Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera. Animalia kingdom consists of animals, plantae of plants, fungi consists of fungi, protista of eucaryotic algae and protozoa, monera of bacteria and blue-green algae.

These plants below belong to the plantae kingdom.



Works Cited:
Campbell, Neil, Jane Reece, and Lawrence Mitchell. “Introduction: Themes In the Study of Life.” Biology. Fifth ed. Menlo Park: Jim Green Publishing, 1999. 10. Print.

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