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From: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ECSC68 S Brown CS)
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Subject: Re: Life Classification
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 11:40:43 EDT
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In article <2597@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> myers@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Bob Myers) writes:
>There's been a certain degree of talk about kingdoms of life: how life
>is generally classified. I think the most commonly accepted version is
>now:
>
>    Type        General Characteristics
>    --------    -----------------------
>
>    Animals     Multicellular, no cell walls, no photosynthesis, usually mobile
>
>    Plants      Multicellular, cell walls, photosynthesis, generally sessile
>
>    Fungi       Multicellular, cell walls, no photosynthesis, generally sessile
>
>    Protists    One-celled life with a cell nucleus
>		Protozoa, yeasts, most one-celled algae
>
>    Monerans    One-celled life, no cell nucleus
>		Bacteria, cyanobacteria ('blue-green algae')
>
>
>Bob Myers                                         myers@tybalt.caltech.edu
>					...seismo!tybalt.caltech.edu!myers

I'd thought* that these "kingdom" classifications were a sub-category of
the eukaryotes, and that the prokaryotes (bacteria and stuff) were completely
separate - ie:
			 Life
			-----
			  |
			  |
	--------------------------------------
	|                                    |
    Eukaryotes                           Prokaryotes
    -----------                          -----------
    | | | | | |                          | | | | | |
    a p f .....                         [various bacteriological "kingdoms"]
    n l u                                
    i a n                                 (anyone know what there are?)
    m n g
    a t i
    l s
    s

I can't remember what the fundamental differance between the eukaryotes
and the prokaryotes is, or even if there really is one at all! I do remember
that all the prokaryotes are haploid, so it would be very nice and convenient
if the eukaryotes were all diploid, wouldn't it? Anyone know anything about
any of this?

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*Disclaimer: I'm a mathematician, not a biologist, so I probably don't
	     completely know what I'm talking about here.
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