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Happy Wednesday!DO NOW
Take out last night's homework.
Copy the objective on page 54 in your notebook.
Do Now Daily Review #6:Give an example of a physical change.
Objective: What is classification?
Tonight's HWRead pages 378384.
Answer questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and 3a on page 386.
THIS WILL BE COLLECTED!!
Objective: What is classification?
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RSFOTDDr. Daniel Williams was an AfricanAmerican surgeon who performed the first successful openheart surgery in the
United States in 1891. He also founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first nonsegregated hospital in the US.
CLASSIFICATIONWhat is it?
Why do we do it?
How do we do it?
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CLASSIFICATION
Classification is the process of grouping things based on
Biologists use classification to organize living things into
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Objective: What is classification?
similarities.
groups so that the organisms are easier to study.
Taxonomy is the study of how living things are classified.
This is useful because once an organism is classified, a scientist
knows a lot about that organism.
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Uhh... what the heck is a lofee?
I have discovered a
LOFEE!
Well, it's classified as a bird.
Ohhhh... Now I get it.
A taxonomic key is a tool used to determine the identity
of an organism.
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Carolus Linnaeus created a system of naming organisms based
on their features. This system is called
binomial nomenclature.
Every organism has a unique, twopart name.
The first part is called the genus.
The second part is called the species.
Homo (man)
Sapien (Wise)