By Team Aakash Byju's | 31st December 2022
Robert Whittaker
Charles Darwin
Carolus Linnaeus
Ernst Haeckel
Detailed Explanation
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.