Linnaen_taxonomy

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Established by Carolus Linnaeus, Linnaean Taxonomy divides living things into five top-level groups, called kingdoms:

• Kingdom Prokaryotae - bacteria, etc. Formerly called Monera
• Kingdom Protista - basal protozoa, algae, etc.
• Kingdom Plantae - green algae & plants
• Kingdom Fungi - chytrids & fungi
• Kingdom Animalia - animals

and then further into phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. One way to remember the ordering is "King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti". Classical Linnaean Taxonomy does not follow evolution too well, but does pretty well for something devloped a hundred (?) years before evolution, and is continually being reformed as new evidence comes in (for instance: there were originally only two kingdoms, the plants and animals, and in the latter all the invertebrates made up a single class).