2.1 Kingdom Monera Since the dawn of civilisation, there have been many attempts to cuss 2.2 Kingdom Protista living organisms. It was done instinctively not using criteria that wo 2.3 Kingdom Fungi food sher and clothing. Aristotle was the earliest to attempt a mo scientific but borne out of a need to use organisms for our own use-1 2.4 Kingdom Plantae scientific basis for classification. He used simple morphological characta 2.5 Kingdom to classify plants into trees, shrubs and herbs. He also divided animal into two groups. those which had red blood and those that did not.
Animalia
In Linnaeus' time a Two Kingdom system of classification wit 2.6 Viruses, Viroids Plantae and Animalia kingdoms was developed that inciuded a) and Lichens plants and animals respectively. This system did not distinguish betwee the eukaryotes and prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular organism and photosynthetic (green algae) and non-photosynthetic (fung) organisms. Classification of organisms into plants and animals was easit\} done and was easy to understand, but, a large number of organism did not fall into either category. Hence the two kingdom classificatio? used for a long time was found inadequate. Besides. gross morpholog a need was also felt for including other characteristics like cell structure nature of wall, mode of nutrition, habitat, methods of reproduction evolutionary relationships, etc. Classification systems for the living organisms have hence, undergone several changes over the time. Though plant and animal kingdoms have been a constant under all different systems, the understanding of what groups/organisms be included under these kingdoms have been changing; the number and nature of other kingdoms have also been understood differently by different scientists over the time.

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2.1 Kingdom Monera Since the dawn of civilisation, there have been many attempts to cuss 2.2 Kingdom Protista living organisms. It was done instinctively not using criteria that wo 2.3 Kingdom Fungi  food sher and clothing. Aristotle was the earliest to attempt a mo ​ scientific but borne out of a need to use organisms for our own use-1  2.4 Kingdom Plantae scientific basis for classification. He used simple morphological characta 2.5 Kingdom ​ to classify plants into trees, shrubs and herbs. He also divided animal  into two groups. those which had red blood and those that did not. ​​
Animalia
In Linnaeus' time a Two Kingdom system of classification wit 2.6 Viruses, Viroids Plantae and Animalia kingdoms was developed that inciuded a) and Lichens plants and animals respectively. This system did not distinguish betwee the eukaryotes and prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular organism and photosynthetic (green algae) and non-photosynthetic (fung) organisms. Classification of organisms into plants and animals was easit\} done and was easy to understand, but, a large number of organism did not fall into either category. Hence the two kingdom classificatio? used for a long time was found inadequate. Besides. gross morpholog a need was also felt for including other characteristics like cell structure nature of wall, mode of nutrition, habitat, methods of reproduction evolutionary relationships, etc. Classification systems for the living organisms have hence, undergone several changes over the time. Though plant and animal kingdoms have been a constant under all different systems, the understanding of what groups/organisms be included under these kingdoms have been changing; the number and nature of other kingdoms have also been understood differently by different scientists over the time.

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Question Text	2.1 Kingdom Monera Since the dawn of civilisation, there have been many attempts to cuss $2.2$ Kingdom Protista living organisms. It was done instinctively not using criteria that wo $2.3 Kingdom Fungi food sher and clothing. Aristotle was the earliest to attempt a mo scientific but borne out of a need to use organisms for our own use-1$ $2.4$ Kingdom Plantae scientific basis for classification. He used simple morphological characta $2.5 Kingdom to classify plants into trees, shrubs and herbs. He also divided animal into two groups. those which had red blood and those that did not.$ Animalia In Linnaeus' time a Two Kingdom system of classification wit $2.6$ Viruses, Viroids Plantae and Animalia kingdoms was developed that inciuded a) and Lichens plants and animals respectively. This system did not distinguish betwee the eukaryotes and prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular organism and photosynthetic (green algae) and non-photosynthetic (fung) organisms. Classification of organisms into plants and animals was easit\} done and was easy to understand, but, a large number of organism did not fall into either category. Hence the two kingdom classificatio? used for a long time was found inadequate. Besides. gross morpholog a need was also felt for including other characteristics like cell structure nature of wall, mode of nutrition, habitat, methods of reproduction evolutionary relationships, etc. Classification systems for the living organisms have hence, undergone several changes over the time. Though plant and animal kingdoms have been a constant under all different systems, the understanding of what groups/organisms be included under these kingdoms have been changing; the number and nature of other kingdoms have also been understood differently by different scientists over the time.
Updated On	Feb 6, 2022
Topic	Diversity in the Living World
Subject	Biology
Class	Class 12
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