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The five kingdoms proposed by Whittaker are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia. Carl Woese further divided Monera into Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.

Kingdom Monera is the first of the five kingdoms of biological classification. It comprised most organisms with a prokaryotic cell organization. For this reason the kingdom was sometimes called Prokaryota or Prokaryotae.

Characteristics of Kingdom Monera:

(i) Kingdom Monera are one-celled without an organized nucleus. Examples: bacteria and blue-green "algae."

(ii) They are found in almost every imaginable habitat; in air, soil, and water and in extreme temperatures and harsh chemical environments.

(iii) There are no membrane bound "organelles".

(iv) Reproduction by asexual method.

(v) Monerans show either autotrophic or heterotrophic nutrition.

(vi) Cell wall may be present or absent.