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Why were bacteria given their own Kingdom?

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1 Answer. Mandira P. With the discovery of electron microscope, biologists realised that it did not make any sense to include prokaryotic world of bacteria in kingdom protista with single celled eukaryotic organisms. Hence a separate kingdom, Monera, was created.
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