The Kingdom Prokaryotae
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It was Haeckel, who first and foremost in the year 1866 vehemently suggested that the microorganisms present in the particular kingdom, Protista, should essentially be composed of both the prokaryotes as well as the eukaryotes.
THE
KINGDOM PROKARYOTAE
It was
Haeckel, who first and foremost in the year 1866 vehemently suggested that the
microorganisms present in the particular kingdom, Protista, should essentially be composed of both the prokaryotes as well as the eukaryotes. Almost a century later,
Murray in 1968 unequivocally and strongly
proposed the ‘prokaryotae’ as an
extremely specific and overwhelmingly typical taxon at the highest level to include essentially all microorganisms distinctly
characterized by the presence of a definitive nucleoplasm free from both the fundamental proteins as well as the nuclear membrane. Inter-estingly, the ‘eukaryotes’ are invariably designated
as a possible taxon occurring almost
at the same highest level so as to include other protists, plants, and animals.
Ultimately, Allsopp commanded that the aforesaid two taxon variants be
christened as kingdoms, Prokaryotae
and Eukaryotae.
The
following members from the ‘Kingdom
Prokaryotae’, namely:
(a) Actinomycetes
(b) Bacteria
(c) Rickettsia
and Coxiella, and
(d) Spirochaetes
shall be
discussed in an elaborated manner in the sections that follows.
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