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Taxonomy Table
Kingdom
This it the largest unit of classification. Initially it was thought that there were only two kingdoms, plants and animals. Eventually microscope and other tools helped clarify the existence of other organisms. Now, there are a total of 5 kingdoms. Animalia - the largest with over 1 million named species, fish, humans; Plantae - 350,000 species, trees, grass; Fungi - 100,000 species, mushrooms, lichen; Protista - 100,000 species, green, golden, brown, and red alga ...
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