Why did the Kingdom Monera go extinct?

Not only did it not go extinct, it is the most successful kingdom on earth. So successful, in fact, that a kingdom wasn't a big enough box for all of them to fit in. A higher level of classification had to be created to accommodate the lifeforms previously classified as monerans, the domain. read more

Not only did it not go extinct, it is the most successful kingdom on earth. So successful, in fact, that a kingdom wasn't a big enough box for all of them to fit in. A higher level of classification had to be created to accommodate the lifeforms previously classified as monerans, the domain. read more

Kingdom Monera - All the organisms of this kingdom are prokaryotes. Complex structure was the basis of classification of organisms, many centuries ago. read more

The taxon Monera was first proposed as a phylum by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. Subsequently, the phylum was elevated to the rank of kingdom in 1925 by Édouard Chatton. The last commonly accepted mega-classification with the taxon Monera was the five-kingdom classification system established by Robert Whittaker in 1969. read more