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Classification

Chapter 9

Classification is the

• Arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities

Classifying living things makes it easier for biologists to find the

answers to many important questions:

• How many known species are there?

• What are the characteristics of each?

• What are the relationships between these species?

Eight Levels of Classification:

• Domain• Kingdom • Phylum• Class • Order • Family • Genus • Species

Eight Levels of Classification

• Domain• Kingdom• Phylum• Class• Order• Family• Genus • Species

Mnemonic Device

• Does• King• Phillip• Come• Over• For • Grape• Soda?

Taxonomy

• The science of identifying, classifying, and naming living things.

Basis for Classification

• Carolus Linnaeus—– Founder of taxonomy. – Attempted to classify all living organisms by

their shared characteristics.

Branching Diagrams

• Shows the evolutionary relationship between organisms.

Scientific Names

• A scientific name is always the same for a specific organism no matter how many common names it might have.

• Written in Latin or Greek

• Scientific name is underlined or italicized

• All known living things have a two-part scientific name

Two parts to the scientific name

• Genus– First part of the name– The name always

begins with a capital letter

• Species– Second part of the

name– The name always

begins with a lowercase letter

Example of a scientific name

• Elephas maximus is an Indian Elephant

• Felis leo is a lion

Dichotomous Keys

• Aid in identifying unknown organisms

• Consists of several pairs of descriptive statements

• There are only two alternative responses

Six Kingdoms•Archaebacteria

•Eubacteria

•Protista

•Fungi

•Plant

•Animal