Summary

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Classifying the diversity of organic life. Diagrammatic illustration of the biological classification system.

Classification levels:

• Species
• Genus
• Family
• Order
• Class
• Phylum
• Kingdom
• Domain

About the Domains/Kingdoms

This diagram implies 3 Domains / 6 Kingdoms (Woese et al. 1990^[1]):

• Archaea, Domain (and Kingdom)
• Eukarya, Domain
  • Protista, Kingdom
  • Fungi, Kingdom
  • Animalia, Kingdom
  • Plantae, Kingdom
• Bacteria, Domain (and Kingdom)

References

1. ↑ Carl R. Woese, Otto Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis: "Towards a Natural System of Organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya", doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576

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See also:

• Image:Scientific classification.png

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