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[edit] Two- empire System

The link labeled "Two-empire system" actually points to a page about the political meaning of "two empire system". And that page does not have a disambiguation paragraph.

How is the five-empire system different from the old five-kingdom system that was used before monera was divied up into archaebacteria and eubacteria? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 02:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The original two-empire system

Should the Empire be listed as an equivalent term for Domain? I believe that the Empire was originally conceived as a top-level rank encompassing all living things (Empire Organisata) as distinct from non-living things (Empire Inorganisata), and is therefore superordinate to what are now called Domains. Gnostrat 13:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two-Empire System [Episode III]

The two-empire system . . . , with top-level groupings of Prokaryota . . . , Eukaryota and the more recently[clarification needed] discovered Archaea empires.[citation needed]

Prokaryota, Eukaryota and Archaea — that's three, not two.

The linked "Two-empire system" page claims on the contrary that the empires are "Acytota and Cytota". (The latter contains all three of the "two" empires mentioned in the quote. Compare with Gnostrat's remark above. There are related comments on the "Two-Empire System" discussion page; in particular Solo Owl's remarks might be helpful.)

None of the three systems currently include non-cellular life.[citation needed]

This contradicts the linked "Two-empire system" page (which, as mentioned above, has an Acytota empire). — Dan337 (talk) 15:03, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Other Three Domain System Page

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
The result of this discussion was discussion void, as it is not clear which pages are proposed for merging here. Discussions should start with the exact names of the articles being discussed and the article names as links. After three years, the articles have changed enough that the "obvious" pages are no longer so obvious. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 17:15, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Should these be merged? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.239.56 (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

  • Support the merge. There is insufficient notable and sourced material here for a separate article. Only one source is given and many of the article assertions have no source. N2e (talk) 11:30, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
  • yes The combination of the two articles would result in a finer article discussing both topics and each would support the other.
  • Yes The synthesized information in the resulting article would be stronger than the separate articles --Sinusoidal (talk) 00:36, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Is this a proposal for the merge of two articles (this and the Three-domain system), or some other also? --Biblbroks's talk 21:35, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
If just for the two my vote is:
  • Support the merge. --Biblbroks's talk 22:24, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Support the merge. The domain article is far too small, and covers the same topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.101.46 (talk) 18:45, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

No, they are totally different! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.104.247 (talk) 20:32, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

  • Would you care to elaborate your opinion? Why they are different? -All the best, Biblbroks (talk) 11:05, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Merge The resultant article would be much better than the two are separately. Spidey104 17:51, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Definitely do not merge. They are separate issues. (December, 2011) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.215.150 (talk) 15:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't try to Merge - If the 3-domain article is merged, what about the 2-empire article, etc? It would look oddly unbalanced if one bullet-point expands into a detailed section while the others remain as mere bullets. Either we leave it as it is or we merge all of them - but that raises the problem that we'd have to merge domains, empires, kingdoms .... which won't work. Best we leave it. Suggest delete the merge/discuss tag. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:12, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Recommend not merging. Too much variability in taxonomic "rules/opinion" (sadly). Quite confusing to have it all in one article. Easier to simply search for "Biology 3 domains" and get exactly what you're being taught. Agree with above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.193.131.215 (talk) 22:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.


[edit] What is a Domain?

What is a domain? (In a few sentences somebody-please!)--DJackD (talk) 08:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


A domain is a level of taxonomy higher than a kingdom.

[edit] Protein domains

Whay there is no page for Protein domains —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.246.136 (talk) 02:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Crystal Clear app fonts.svg Please use a descriptive title in future questions. I have added one for you.
This page now has a link to Domain (disambiguation), which lists many different uses of the word "domain", including Protein domain. Thank you for pointing out the lack. --ColinFine (talk) 08:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for non-life

In the last sentence, it says a citation is needed for the phrase stating that non-life is not currently grouped with domains. I don't think it needs a citation, for it is obvious, in my opinion. Heritagefarm (talk) 20:38, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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