Multiple choice

In Whittaker's system of classification, prokaryotes are placed in the kingdom

  1. Protista

  2. Monera

  3. Plantae

  4. Animalia

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Explanation

In Whittaker's five-kingdom classification system (1969), Monera is the kingdom for prokaryotic organisms, bacteria and archaebacteria, whose cells lack a nucleus. The other kingdoms (Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia) all contain eukaryotes with nucleated cells.