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

Classification levels:

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

↑ 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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