By Team Aakash Byju's | 31st December 2022

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Robert Whittaker

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

Charles Darwin

Carolus Linnaeus

Ernst Haeckel

Detailed Explanation

The correct answer is  A) Robert Whittaker.

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Robert Whittaker classified all living things into five kingdoms according to the following characteristics:

The complexity of cell structures

The complexity of body structures

Animal Cell

Plant Cell

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Phylogenetic relationship

Ecological lifestyle

Mode of obtaining nutrition

The five kingdoms proposed by him were:

Kingdom Monera which includes prokaryotes

Kingdom Protista which includes unicellular eukaryotes

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Kingdom Fungi which includes fungi.

Kingdom Plantae which includes multicellular eukaryotic plants.

Kingdom Animalia which includes multicellular animals.