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# 3: Five Kingdoms of living things
All living things are divided into 5 kingdoms. Each kingdom has certain
characteristics that all members of that group shared. They are:
Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protoctists, Bacteria (Prokaryotes)
The characteristics that Linnaeus used to divide all organisms into one of the
five groups included:
• How many cells made up their bodies, if their cells were very simple or
had complex parts

