classification of organisms is important because__________________________________...

Classification of organisms is important because______________________________________________________________________.

_____________ ______________ are used to group organisms together.

As the number of ______________ ______________ used to group different organisms increases the number of different types of organisms in the group __________.

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How would knowing in which section of the music store an unfamiliar CD is

located be helpful in gathering information about the CD?

Classification means sorting things into groups.

We classify organisms to make recognition and description easier.

Mare, trout, parrot, quarter horse, woodpecker, cocker spaniel, gold fish, Great Dane, eagle, bass,

beagle, hawk, stallion, Dalmatian, shark

Air Land

Non water

Animals

Water

DogsHorses

In order to better understand the organisms of Earth, Biologists organize them into groups.

The Linnean hierarchical classification was set up with the species as the smallest unit, and that each species was nested within a higher

category.

Carolus Linnaeus

For example Man in English is Hombre in Spanish, Herr in German, Ren in Chinese, and

Homo in Latin.

If a scientist refers today to Homo, all scientistsknow what organism/taxon he or she means.

Binomial NomenclatureA two word naming system used to identify species

Binomial NomenclatureA two word naming system used to identify species

Homo sapiensIdentifies the genus

of the organismDescribes a characteristic

of the organism

Italicized in print or underlined when handwritten

The first letter of the genus name is capitalizedThe first letter of the descriptive name is lower case

common name

Kingdom

PhylumClass

OrderFamily

GenusSpecies

How living things are classified

How living things are classified

Organisms that look alike and successfully interbreed belong to the same species

Genus

A group of similar species that have similarfeatures and are closely related.

Family

A group of similar genera, each sharingsimilar characteristics

Order

Is a taxon of similar families

Class

Is a taxon of similar orders

Phylum

Is a group of similar classes

Kingdom

A group of similar phyla or divisions

Species

How living things are classified

Species

Genus Genus

Species

Family Felidae

Order Carnivora

LynxFelis

Class MammaliaPhylum Chordata

Kingdom Animalia

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

Example: Man

Animal

Chordata

Mammalia

Primate

Hominidae

Homo

H.sapien

The number of kinds of organisms decreases down the spectrum until there is only one kind of

organism left for the group 'species‘.

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus apes HomoNew world Old world

monkeys

Primate

Tarsiers lemurs

Prosimians hominoids

Mammalia

Chordata

Animalia

SapiensSpecies