In the 1700s, Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus developed the first comprehensive system for classifying living things. His system included two kingdoms-animal and plant. In the 1860s, scientists expanded this classification system to three kingdoms. The new kingdom included all single-celled organisms. What name did they give this third kingdom?

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Allen Gregory

7 May, 21:17

In the 1700s, Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus developed the first comprehensive system for classifying living things. His system included two kingdoms-animal and plant. In the 1860s, scientists expanded this classification system to three kingdoms. The new kingdom included all single-celled organisms. What name did they give this third kingdom?

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Kingdom Protista

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Following up to the classification of living things into two broad classification; kingdom animalia and plantae by Carl Linnaeus in the 1700s, in the 1960s, German scientist, Ernst Haeckel proposed a three kingdom classification system which is, Kingdom Animalia, Plantae and Protista. Kingdom protista is to include all unicellular organisms such as fungi, protozoa, bacteria and other microorganisms.