Monera

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The Monera are a biological kingdom, comprising all living things with a prokaryotic cell organization. Prior to its creation these were treated as two separate divisions of plants: the Schizomycetes or bacteria, considered fungi, and the Cyanophyta or blue-green algae. The latter are now considered a group of bacteria, typically called the cyanobacteria, and are known not to be closely related to plants, fungi, or animals.

Studies by Woese in 1977 showed the prokaryotes are divided into two separate groups, which do not appear closer relatives than they are to the eukaryotes. These were called the Eubacteria and Archaebacteria, and later the Bacteria and Archaea. They may be treated as subkingdoms, but most newer schemes tend to abandon the Monera and treat these as separate domains. Herbert Copeland proposed the fourth kingdom which is Monera. He found out that there are many fundamental characteristics rarely seen in other organisms but found in bacteria and blue green algae. See prokaryotes for more information.