Tree Of Life is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on September 13th, 2017.
Tree Of Life
The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of... more
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Tree Of Life
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Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph
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The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants.
In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, often called the "father of microscopy", sent the Royal Society of London a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms. Until then, the existence of such microscopic organisms was entirely unknown.
Carolus Linnaeus introduced the rank-based system of nomenclature into biology in 1735, the highest rank was given the name "kingdom".
In the 1960s a rank was introduced above kingdom - domain (or empire).
In 1998, Cavalier-Smith published a six-kingdom model. The Chromista are a eukaryotic supergroup which may be treated as a separate kingdom or included among the Protista.
Cellular life I divided into 3 domains. Each domain has at least one Kingdom. The Number of Phylum's in each Kingdom are written in yellow.
The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks are written at the middle with the line through them.
Credit must be given to pictures :
Archaea: By NASA (en:Image:Halobacteria.jpg(Taken from [1])) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Bacteria: By Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Fungi By BorgQueen [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
Protist: [[::User:???|???]] [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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September 13th, 2017
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Alana Thrower
Great Tree of Life image! Hopefully extinction and the development and discovery of new species will balance each other out! l/f/g+/t/p
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