Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002, India
*E-mail: hp.pandey.bps@gmail.com
Online published on 7 April, 2016.
This communication is a further elaboration of earlier proposed broad outline classification of the living world by the author which addresses a novel and comprehensive approach of the taxonomy of living world in general. The paper intends to infuse the fundamental ideas regarding the vast majority of living beings including prions, viroids, viruses, bacteria, fungi, lichens, plants and animals in a holistic way, taking their marker characters into consideration. Besides incorporating certain minor changes in the broad outline classification of living world; Megakingdom Concept of Bioplurity, based on expert comments, it also covers a discourse on the Relict Preserved Hypothesis' of origin of chemobiotic entities. Furthermore, the plants which nourish the entire living world, have always been a subject of human curiosity in terms of their taxonomy, and thus the major plant taxa have been variously named in the past, based on unscientific grounds, which might have been relevant in those days. But, since the science is rapidly progressing to global and generals, therefore, these stereotypic terms have now become insufficient to focus the real objective. This revisionary work therefore, provides a concrete, comprehensive, self-explanatory and informative new terminology for different major plant taxa in relation to their origin, external and internal complexities, biological specialties and probable phylogeny among themselves.
Megakingdom, Nomenclature, Prions, Relict-preserved hypothesis, Taxonomy