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Chapter 17 Classification of Organisms

Section 1 Biodiversity

biodiversity- the variety of organisms that exist

Although scientists have classified almost 2 million species, there are likely many more

Taxonomy- the science of describing, naming and classifying organisms

Various naming systems have been used over the years

Aristotle

Classified organisms into two taxa: plants and animals

Taxa= groups, taxon- group

Aristotle’s System

Animals Plants

Classified based on where they lived; land, water or air

Classified based on stem differences

The Linnaean System Grouped

organisms according to their form and structure

(morphology) Had seven

levels Most like the

system we used today

Linnaeus’ hierarchy Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

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Linnaeus grouped structurally similar organisms of a single type into the species category.

Today’s system uses the added level of “domain” above kingdom

Linnaeus also gave organisms a species name a.k.a scientific name with two parts:

Genus (first letter capitalized) Species identifier (all lowercase) **Both underlined or italicized

Human Classification

Our scientific name: Homo sapiensOur genus name is Homo Our species identifier is sapiens

This two part naming system is known as

Binomial nomenclature

Chaos chaos

Names often describe the organism

In addition… Some species are given subspecies

names torefer to the geographic area in which

they live

Terrapene carolina triunui

Various ranges of Eastern Box Turtles