Question

7-What are the five kingdoms to classify microorganisms?

Answer 1

7. Microorganisms can be classified into five major kingdoms:

• Kingdom Animalia.
• Kingdom Plantae.
• Kingdom Fungi.
• Kingdom Protista.
• Kingdom Monera (Bacteria)

4. Rules:
• Use Binary Names - Binary names consisting of a generic name and a species epithet (e.g., Escherichia coli), must be used for all
microorganisms. Names of categories at or above the genus level may be used alone, but species and subspecies names
(species names) may not. In other words…never use a species name alone.

•When to Capitalize – The genus name (and above) is always capitalized, the species
name is never capitalized, e.g. Bacillus anthracis
• When to Italicize - Names of all taxa (kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera,
species, and subspecies) are printed in italics and should be underlined if handwritten; strain
designations and numbers are not. If all the surrounding text is italic, then the binary name would be non-italic (Roman typeface) or underlined .

5. A Swedish naturalist named Carolus Linnaeus is considered the 'Father of Taxonomy' because, in the 1700s, he developed a way to name and organize species that we still use today. His two most important contributions to taxonomy were:

1. A hierarchical classification system
2. The system of binomial nomenclature (a 2-part naming method)