What are the importance of kingdom monera?

Characteristics:

• no membrane-covered nuclei and organelles
• mostly unicellular
• reproduce asexually by binary fissio
• produce food through photosynthesis but use a wider variety of substances as raw materials than eukaryotes
• tiny organisms
• a cell wall, usually surrounded by a layer of slime, encloses the cell

  Classification according to shape:

  1.coccus-spherical

  2.bacillus-rodlike

  3.spirillus-spiral

  Functions of Monerans:

1. Sewage disposal

2. Production of cheese and vinegar

3. Used in tanning leather and curing meat

4. production of anibiotics like neomycin

5. Biological control of harmful insects