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For a long time every living thing was either a plant or an animal. Then biologists looked at the cells, and the old order broke. In this course we see why two kingdoms were not enough, how Whittaker built five, and what makes a bacterium different from every other cell. We study the shapes of bacteria, the archaebacteria, the cyanobacteria and the bacteria that help us or harm us.