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Image: Five Kingdoms of Life

This view represents Earthly life as composed of 5 kingdoms, 4 of which are eukaryotic, and the 5th, the monera (what we now call prokaryotes) at the base of the tree.  This view of life is based on structural and functional analyses of organisms, and a proposed evolutionary line in which life moved from simple to more complex, and smaller to larger.

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