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In the Wh5How2 Database, the hierarchy begins with the largest physical thing of which we are currently aware, the universe, and progressively gets smaller:

THE HIERARCHY OF THIS DATABASE

UNIVERSE

GALAXY CLUSTER

GALAXY

ZODIAC

CONSTELLATION

NEBULA (or STAR CLUSTER)

STAR SYSTEM

STAR

PLANETARY SYSTEM

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE (includes water)

PLANET

EARTH GEOLOGY (includes mineral kingdom)

EARTH LIFE FORMS (4 kingdoms)

Kingdoms and Subkingdoms/Divisions

Kingdom Monera

(bacteria and blue-green algae)

Kingdom Protista

(protozoa, slime molds, fungi, and algae other than the blue-greens)

Kingdom    Plantae     (Metaphyta or Embryophyta) (bryophytes and vascular plants)

Kingdom Metazoa

(higher animals)

 Animalia

Divisions   Monera (2)

Subkingdoms Protista (2)

Divisions  Plantae (7)

Subkingdoms Metazoa (2)

Schizophyta (bacteria:  photosynthetic and chemosynthetic bacteria, true bacteria, sheathed bacteria, budding bacteria, filmentous bacteria, branching bacteria, gliding bacteria, slime bacteria, spiral bacteria, and mycoplasms or pleuropneumonia organisms)

Protophyta (algae, slime molds, lichens, water molds, sac fungi (yeasts, many bread molds, powdery mildews, morels, cup fungi, truffles, most lichen fungi, and others), club fungi (jelly fungi, smuts, rusts, mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, earth stars, bird's-nest fungi and others)

Bryophyta (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts)

Parazoa (sponges)

Cyanophyta (blue-green algae)

Protozoa

Psilotophyta (whisk ferns or psilopsids)

Metazoa

Lycopodiophyta (club mosses and quill worts)

Equisetophyta (horsetails)

Polypodiophyta (ferns)

Pinophyta (or Gymnospermae) (gymnosperms:  conifers (pines, yews, spruces, firs, junipers, redwoods, and others), cycads, ginkgos, joint firs, and others)

Magnoliophyta (or Angiospermae) (flowering plants: monocots (grasses, rushes, sedges, cattails and pondweeds, palms, pineapple and other bromeliads, lilies, bananas, ginger, orchids, and others) and dicots or broad-leaved plants (most trees, buttercups, poppies, roses, violets, cacti, mints, squashes, sunflowers, and many others)

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