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What were organisms originally classified as before 1937?
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They were classified as either Plants or Animals, and based on their phenotypic relationships.
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What happened around 1937?
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Prokaryotes were distinguished from Eukaryotes.
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The Five Kingdom System (about)
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Was proposed by Whittaker in 1969; says that eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells; each kingdom contains phyla, classes, orders, families, generas, and species.
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The Five Kingdoms
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1. Prokaryotae (Monera)
2. Protista (Archaea) 3. Fungi 4. Animal 5. Plant |
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Woese
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Proposed the 3 doman system in 1978
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Evolutionary relationship in Prokaryotes
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Determined by examining the sequence of nucleotides in 16s rRNA
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Evolutionary Relationship in Eukaryotes
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Determined by examining sequence of nucleotides in the 18s rRNA
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