Evaluate the following statements about R.H. Whittaker’s Five Kingdom Classification.
a. R.H. Whittaker proposed the Five Kingdom Classification in 1969.
b. The five kingdoms proposed were Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
c. The main criteria used for this classification were cell structure, body organisation, mode of nutrition, reproduction, and phylogenetic relationships.
d. In this system, all prokaryotic organisms were grouped under Kingdom Protista.
e. Kingdom Monera was divided into two domains in a later proposed three-domain system.
f. The Five Kingdom system placed unicellular eukaryotes like Chlamydomonas and Chlorella in Kingdom Protista.
g. This system successfully separated the heterotrophic fungi from the autotrophic green plants.
