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Monera
Also known as Kingdom Monera
Monera () (Greek: (), "single", "solitary") is historically a biological kingdom that is made up of unicellular prokaryotes. As such, it is composed of single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus.
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Monera () (Greek: (), "single", "solitary") is historically a biological kingdom that is made up of unicellular prokaryotes. As such, it is composed of single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus.
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.