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From Two Kingdoms to Three Domains• Early taxonomists classified all <strong>species</strong> as eitherplants or animals• Later, five kingdoms were recognized: Monera(prokaryotes), Protista, Plantae, Fungi, andAnimalia• More recently, the three-domain system hasbeen adopted: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya• The three-domain system is supported by datafrom many sequenced genomesAnimation: Classification SchemesCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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