Biopedia

35- Five Kingdoms, Three Domains

Jun 6, 2021 · 4 min · Season 2 · Episode 25 · 4.0 MB
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Today, we're going to discuss classification. We're going to briefly skim over how people historically used to organise life, before the establishment of the prokaryote-eukaryote division which would stay in place until an American scientist called Carl Woese rocked the taxonomic boat...


Sources for this episode:

  • Craine, A. G., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2020), Carl Woese (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021].
  • Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Taxonomy (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021].
  • Some of the discussion is based on my previous education on the subject and my completion of a Massive Open Online Course 'Emergence of Life' covering this topic in 2018.