Microbial Diversity Flashcards
Primary concerns of taxonomy (3)
Classification: arrangement
Nomenclature: assignment of names
Identification: practical
Father of taxonomy
Carolus Linnaeus
Suggested univellular forms be placed in different kingdom (protista, plantae animalia)
Ernst Haeckel
Suggested 4- kingdom classification (monera, blue-green algae)
Suggested 5-kingdom classification (fungi)
Suggested 6-kingdom classification (Monera to archaebacteria and eubacteria)
Herbert Copeland
Robert H. Whittaker
Carl Woese
With electronic microscopy and the distinction of the presence (prokaryotes) and absence (eukaryotes) of a nucleus
Edouard Chatton
Discovered the group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms known as archaea
Carl Woese