What is Kingdom?
In the hierarchy of animal classification, Kingdom Animalia is the highest category given to all creatures belonging to various phyla. On the other hand, all plants from different divisions are included in the Kingdom Plantae, which is separate. We shall now refer to these two categories as the animal and plant kingdoms.
The five-kingdom system of classification was proposed by Whittaker in 1969, which includes Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. However, this system has been revised with the discovery of new organisms and advances in molecular biology.
What is Kingdom?
Kingdom is a taxonomic rank used to classify organisms into major groups based on their characteristics and evolutionary relationships. Carl Linnaeus created the concept of kingdom in his categorization system in the 18th century. The kingdom is the highest rank in Linnaean taxonomy and is further divided into smaller groups such as phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. There are five major kingdoms of living beings at the moment: Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.