Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity (GATE - XL)

Haeckel grouped bacteria and fungi with unrelated organisms.

Whittaker included prokaryotic, autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms in kingdom Monera.

Whittaker included eukaryotic, unicellular, autotrophic or heterotrophic organisms in kingdom Protista.

Viruses are not the first cell organisms in Whittaker’s classification system.

Copeland did not place fungi properly in his four kingdom of classification.